Quotes about Hedonism

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

Satan has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy. They lack an anchor for their real self.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?