Georges Bataille Quotes

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Decadence is wonderful.

How sweet it is!

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

I don't do anything I'm not going to enjoy.

Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

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

Pleasure is everything.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Good food is the basis of true happiness

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.