Hedonism Quotes

“Whilst you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here.”

“Now we must get drunk and drink whether we want to or not.”

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor resignation, but in a desperate hedonism, a reckless refusal to give up the world.”

“The cultural justification of capitalism is now hedonism, the idea of pleasure as a way of life.”

“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”

“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”

“Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I never found any occupation more important.”

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's get wasted all of the time and have the time of our life.”

“Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.”

“Il piacere è il più certo modo di conoscenza.”

“Live now, pay later.”

“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.”

“Wine and women and song, To us they belong, To us the bitter and sweet.”

“Sex and drugs and rock and roll is all my brain and body need.”

“I wish to live to 150. But the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”

“Feeling good is not always good.”

“Ninety percent of my money I spent on wine, women and song. The other ten percent I wasted.”

“In every country, the love of pleasure is the secret spring of all the actions of men.”

“Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.”

“I may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least I'm enjoying the ride.”