Hedonist Quotes

#1. I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

Daniel Klein

#2. A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Mary Oliver

#3. An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

David Hockney

#4. My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carrie Fisher

#5. I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Michael Dirda

#6. I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Francois Arnaud

#7. Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Nick Offerman

#8. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Timothy Leary

#9. I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

Ayn Rand

#11. I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

Robin Wright

#12. If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Anthony Liccione

#13. In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then - I read that once somewhere - the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic.
People like St. Augustine are always the ones that become visionaries.

Hermann Hesse

#14. I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

Gail Carriger

#15. I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

Grace Slick

#16. Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.

Dan Savage

#17. Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

Virat Kohli

#18. I always wanted to be in movies.

Marcia Gay Harden

#19. He could sense the word resting on her tongue as a hedonist sensed a tongue resting on something else.

Sam Sykes

#20. My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Eudora Welty

#21. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. humans carried heavy obligations, too, but called them culture. Society.

Ian Tregillis

#23. When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.

Sukant Ratnakar

#24. You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

Paulo Coelho

#25. This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#26. The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Ken Livingstone

#27. Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#29. We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

Alex Majoli

#30. For Harley, reading was the equivalent of chocolate, sleep, and morphine all rolled into one. Like all cats, she was quite the hedonist.

Suzanne Wright

#31. Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

#32. But the Anderson thing isn't over yet. And as I've said before - this, my friends, is war. I'm talking DEFCON-one, gloves-off, I'll-knock-you-down-even-if-you-are-a-girl war. You wouldn't give a bullet to a sniper who's got his gun aimed at your forehead, would you?

Emma Chase