Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay..

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life..

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work..

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives..

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are….

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. Th….

Work is the opposite of creativity..

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies..

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, pe….

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in pea….

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life..

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about lov….

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom..

Daydreaming subverts the world..

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete..

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjec….

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself..

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little ….

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others..

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create..