Paulo Coelho Quotes

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

People are extremely reluctant to give up that which gives them pleasure.

I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures.

...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

I love women, I love alcohol, and I love combining the two. If God invented anything better than drunk sex with a hot girl, he kept it to himself.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.