Hedonism Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
— Woody Allen
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
— Susan Sontag
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I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science.…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they…
— Guillaume Faye
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a…
— Courtney Love
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The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in…
— Newt Gingrich
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
— Mason Cooley
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
— C.S. Lewis
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
— David Graeber
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Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes…
— Cornel West
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The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
— Tim Winton
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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that…
— Steve Coogan
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We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Punctuality is the thief of time
— Oscar Wilde
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There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system…
— Tony Hoagland
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
— Italo Calvino
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It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
— Joan Didion
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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I succumbed to hedonism.
— Simon Le Bon
Who Wrote These Hedonism Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Hedonism Quotes as follows: