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Quotes About Insatiable

People who know me know I'm never satisfied.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
La femme est insatiable comme la mer (...), mystérieuse comme la nuit (...) image de l'immensité, elle engendre la claustrophobie.
~ Pierre Darmon
For dealing with blessings which come to us from outside we need a firm foundation based on reason and education; without this foundation, people keep on seeking these blessings and heaping them up but can never satisfy the insatiable appetites of their souls.
~ Plutarch
had a marriage and a child. If there were doubts, if there were periods of null depression or active despairing, these could only mean that I was ungrateful, insatiable, perhaps a monster.
~ Adrienne Rich
Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.
~ Agatha Christie
His Vengeance is an insatiable engine fueled by burning wrath generating a boundless galactic nightmare
~ Alan Grant
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
~ Nan Fairbrother
and if the stepmother was irredeemable, it's because she's all of us: insatiable, craving and its underbelly, selfishness incarnate. She's who we all are when we feel poor amid plenty.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l'air du temps.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.
~ Donald Symons
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
~ Honore de Balzac
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
~ Serena Williams
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
~ Susan Cain
Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.
~ Mengistu Haile Mariam
humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.
~ William B. Irvine
It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
~ David Brin
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
~ David Hume
The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.
~ Gabrielle Roy
youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
~ Albert Camus
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.
~ Bertrand Russell
We are the graceless and dumbfounded, insane with our own insatiable desire for another time and place.
~ David Means
Contudo, o sentimento em relação às terras distantes permanece, e o interesse por elas jamais arrefece. Assim, o homem cavouca, insaciável, em épocas passadas e em culturas desconhecidas. A rigidez da própria existência aumenta, e essas épocas e culturas oferecem o instrumento inesgotável para a transformação.
~ Elias Canetti
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
~ Richard Russo