Sam Levinson Quotes

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

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.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I've always done whatever I felt like, even if it was really inadvisable.

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.

Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

We don't plan to be good or bad. We just think, 'What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.'

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.