Quotes About Insatiable

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

He is one of the cursed, a Tantalus, whose literary hunger perpetually gnaws but can never be satiated. He has read everything at least once.

All the tragedy lay in trying to fit a boundless and insatiable love into human proportions, into one love.

because Puritanism is an insatiable vice that feeds off its own shit.

There's much I know: yet I'd know everything. (600)

Desire persuades us that if only we have a pleasant breath or if only we have that spacious feeling we had earlier, then we would be happy. But desire is insatiable. As soon as we get the object or experience we have been longing for, we move on to another desire, because the more we pursue desire, the more desire we experience.

We can also see how desire sees just the attractive qualities of the breath we imagine we want, divorced from the reality of our breathing - which is sometimes tight and sometimes smooth, and always is changing. This examination can give us exceptional insight as to how desire operates in our lives - how it adheres to its object, how it makes its object more attractive than it really is and makes us blind to unattractive aspects. We can examine how insatiable it is.

The greatest crimes are committed ... for obtaining or securing the objects of ill-regulated desires, and senseless, because insatiable, passions.

It is an eternal phenomenon: the insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to live on, by means of an illusion spread over things.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

I have this thirst for knowledge that I can't ever satisfy.

Eu leio antropofagicamente: quero devorar aquele que escreveu

history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature's show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable appetites. Nature strikes when roused; man, out of habit and a perverse nature. The

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

David Hume would put it even more vividly: all the other passions, including self-interest itself, have relatively minor effect on our lives, compared with the desire for property. "This avidity alone of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society .

I am very greedy as an actor. I want to explore as much as possible.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

And the avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end; for it is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

The desire to love is the impulsion of the soul towards the Ideal, it is the sense of the indefinite, the perfect. It is also insatiable, for the perfect is always on the horizon, never attainable.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

Dreams may well be the vehicle of wishes, but the wishes at stake are the insatiable human desires to exceed the isolating and privatizing confines of the self.