A Quote by Mason Cooley

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

Joan Didion

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

David Graeber

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Steve Coogan

I succumbed to hedonism.

Simon Le Bon

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Phillip Lopate

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Italo Calvino

The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.

Beth Moore

A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of it.

Jon Hopkins

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

Tim Winton

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

C. S. Lewis

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

Pamela Anderson

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Francis Arinze

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

Oliver Kahn

There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.