Indulgence Quotes

“Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to getlost in a book.”

“Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.”

“Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself.”

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”

“I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.”

“The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence.”

“Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?”

“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”

“Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.”