Debauchery Quote by Albert Camus

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and…

— Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great…

— Albert Camus

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

— Ambrose Bierce

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the…

— Georges Bataille

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all…

— Denis Diderot

“Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our…

— Samuel Johnson