47 Quotes About Hedonism

He also stayed awake all night many times in the neon-lit insomnia of cities where the all-nighter is culturally certified and commercially mandated. But the all-nighter of the bohemian heroes was something else: it was spiritual work, the night shift; they stayed awake so the demons that haunt the world wouldn’t get them in their sleep.

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

Pleasure is not a need, but an incentive.

We need to be those that revere Apollo, yet do not ignore Dionysus. We must give Dionysus his due, but always in a subordinate sense to Apollo. As things stand, we live in a primitive Dionysian world where Apollo scarcely gets a look in. We need an Apollonian world by day (work hard, intelligently, rationally and logically) and a Dionysian world by night (play hard, satisfying our deepest needs in sublimated, ritualistic, and staged ways, avoiding the horror of the untamed, bestial Dionysian).

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

The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The successful American’s lifestyle is now increasing one motivated by hedonism, representing the merger of a happiness culture and celebration of an individualistic self.

What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.