Epicureanism Philosophy Quotes

#1. In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

Anais Nin

#2. Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

David Levithan

#3. It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Lemony Snicket

#4. Passion is a must, Passion is a gaze, A wonder of lust

Richard Allen Whisenant

#5. It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

Peter Lynch

#6. Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Francis Bacon

#7. Angry Girl has no cavity. She has teeth.

Kirsty Eagar

#8. Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously comes the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up in the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Epicurus

#10. Death means nothing to us

Epicurus

#11. It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off - that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.

Walter Pater

#12. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

#13. A Christian without the Holy Spirit is like a cheeseburger without the cheese. It's not what it claims to be.

Jarrid Wilson

#14. All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression - of evil, even - for it to be worth getting into bed for.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Epicurus

#16. Not when my heart has always been yours.

Harper Sloan

#17. I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

George Michael