I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing…

— Maia Szalavitz

“When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel…

— Brandon Boyd

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

— Timothy Leary

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

— Jeremy Bentham

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

— David Hockney

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

— Beth Moore

“I am not a self-centered hedonist. At the same time, I also believe that happiness is the ultimate purpose of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

— Nick Offerman

Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of…

— Frederick Lenz

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

— Ethel Merman

Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was…

— Dale Jamieson

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives…

— Michel Onfray

She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her…

— Lisa Kleypas