Victor Hugo Quotes

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I succumbed to hedonism.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

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.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.

Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!