The Hedonist/Quotes

"Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures."

- The noun definition of a hedonist, Webster's Dictionary

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you will die."

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure."

- Dr. Frank N. Furter, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

"We're going to die anyway, and the body is a prison, so what's the point in denying ourselves what we want?"

- Anonymous source, claimed to be an Ancient Greek Philosopher

"With you all I'll learn to share My hours of leisure Life is folly And only pleasure counts"

- "The Drinking Song", La Traviata

"I apologize for nothing!"

- Hedonism-bot, Futurama

"Surgery? In an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest! Jambi, the chocolate icing! (Jambi spreads chocolate icing on him) Oooh...oh, my yes."

- Hedonism Bot, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Plaything"

""You showed me we could do anything, so...I'm trying everything.""

- Balthazar to Castiel, Supernatural

"That the pleasure arising to man from contact with sensible objects, is to be relinquished because accompanied by pain— such is the reasoning of fools. The kernels of the paddy, rich with finest white grains, What man, seeking his own true interest, would fling them away because of a covering of husk and dust? While life remains, let a man live happily, let him feed on butter though he runs in debt; When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again?"

- Carvaka