hedonist

• “You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mind Wide Open

• “This is sometimes referred to as a hedonist view of existence, and for one reason or another practically no one is persuaded that there’s anything to it.”

  A Conversation with Thomas Ligotti

• “The body of a hedonist is the coffin of a dead soul and there's no soul more dead than one which died young.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “He is perhaps the only perfectly frank and unmitigated "hedonist" which European literature at this hour offers.”

  Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations

• “Longworth, a self-proclaimed "hedonist," used to say.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Prof. Nordhaus is respectful toward both national economic accounting and hedonic psychology (from the Greek for pleasure, as in "hedonist").”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “Grab a drink and reconnect with your hedonist roots.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Search of a Billionaire's Paradise

• “Certainly, one might adduce a lot from the activities of her friend and fellow hedonist, who also had similar rooms: her brother-in-law, the Comte d'Artois later King Charles X, a known sensualist and libertine.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At the Frick, Dreams of Ottoman Treasures

• “British occultist, writer, scholar, hedonist, and drug addict—generally considered wicked and depraved.”

  Simon & Schuster: Soul Trapper

• “An unconscious hedonist, utterly unmoral and materialistic, he sought the greatest possible happiness for himself, and found it in drink.”

  A MAN AND THE ABYSS

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