logo

Quotes About Fulfillment

Sexual pleasure was not only superior, in refinement and violence, to all the other pleasures life had to offer; it was not only the one pleasure with which there is no collateral damage to the organism, but which on the contrary contributes to maintaining it at its highest level of vitality and strength; it was in truth the sole pleasure, the sole objective of human existence
~ Michel Houellebecq
That hole she had at the base of her belly must appear so useless to her; a prick can always be cut off, but how do you forget the emptiness of a vagina?
~ Michel Houellebecq
Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Elämä ilman lukemista on vaarallista, silloin on pakko tyytyä elämiseen ja siinä on omat riskinsä.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love.
~ Michel Houellebecq
tüdrukud võivad ju litsid olla, asja võib niimoodi vaadata küll, aga karjäär on palju hullem lits ja pealegi ei paku see mitte mingit naudingut.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Wydr??y?em dziurk? w piasku, wsun??em tam oba dzie?a; teraz problem polega? na tym, ?e musia?em poszuka? sobie czego? do czytania. Zycie bez czytania jest niebezpieczne, trzeba zadowoli? si? samym ?yciem, a to niesie ze sob? pewne ryzyko.
~ Michel Houellebecq
À quoi bon installer la 5G si l'on n'arrivait simplement plus à rentrer en contact, et à accomplir les gestes essentiels, ceux qui permettent à l'espèce humaine de se reproduire, ceux qui permettent aussi, parfois, d'être heureux ?
~ Michel Houellebecq
La gente necesita sexo, eso es todo, lo que pasa es que no se atreve a confesarlo.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Was I capable of being happy in solitude? I didn't think so. Was I capable of being happy in general? That's the kind of question, I think, that is best not asked.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Nella prima parte della vita, ci si rende conto della propria felicità solo dopo averla perduta. Poi viene un'età, una seconda età, in cui si sa già, nel momento in cui si comincia a vivere una felicità, che si finirà col perderla.
~ Michel Houellebecq
El efecto beneficioso de la compañía de un perro proviene de que es posible hacerlo feliz; pide cosas tan simples, su ego es tan limitado...
~ Michel Houellebecq
Or maybe I was just hungry. I'd forgotten to eat the day before, and possibly what I should do was go back to my hotel and sit down to a few duck's legs instead of falling down between the pews in an attack of mystical hypoglycemia.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Notre malheur n'atteint son plus haut point que lorsque a été envisagée, suffisamment proche, la possibilité pratique du bonheur.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Es el sufrimiento de ser el que nos hace buscar al otro, como un paliativo; tenemos que superar esa fase para alcanzar el estado en el que el mero hecho de ser constituye en sí una ocasión permanente de júbilo;
~ Michel Houellebecq
Yo le había dado demasiada importancia a la sexualidad, era indiscutible; pero el único lugar del mundo en el que me había sentido bien era acurrucado entre los brazos de una mujer, acurrucado en el fondo de su vagina; y, a mi edad, no veía ningún motivo para que aquello cambiase.
~ Michel Houellebecq
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
~ Michel Houellebecq
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
~ Michel Houellebecq
You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.
~ Unknown
Os homens não podem dispor de uma capacidade para o prazer para que ela seja depreciada, proibida e reprimida.
~ Michel Onfray
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.
~ Unknown