47 Quotes About Hedonism

Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool.

Though he has watched a decent age pass by,A man will sometimes still desire the world.I swear I see no wisdom in that man.The endless hours pile up a drift of painMore unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure,When he is sunken in excessive age,You will not see his pleasure anywhere.- Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus

It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness of life to restore them to joy, that is to say, to pleasure, why may it not then be said that nature does provoke every man to do the same to himself?

The difference between egoistic hedonism and altruistic hedonism is but an adjective.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Pleasure vociferates more than Wisdom.

You’re human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore.

Lots of people have been afraid of the vanity of things! I´ve overcome it. Lots reflect hard; I have no need to reflect. I don´t rejoice over the good and don´t despair over the bad. If I hear that the Greeks have taken Constantinople, it´s just the same to me as if the Turks were taking Athens.