Quotes About Satisfaction

You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.

I don't want anything, I'm made of nothing. I hoped to wake in the morning without desires.

Lui crede che mi ha privata di qualcosa, con quello che m'ha fatto. Ma non mi ha privata di niente, io ho avuto tutto, io ho tutto. È tuo padre che non ha niente.

Será possível que nem os momentos felizes de prazer resistam a um exame rigoroso?

I'm dead, but I'm fine

Deja que nos hagamos ricos sin complicarnos la vida, que ya de por sí es bastante complicada.

mi immaginai che non fosse morta insoddisfatta e sospirai di soddisfazione inattesa.

Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.

It was weird what was enough to make you feel good or bad, even though your basic life circumstances were the same.

Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get—you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.

There is no suffering if you don't want anything.

How comfortable it was to read about comfortable people!

Sometimes, when I caught that glimmer of promise, I tried to touch myself to see if I could have an orgasm. It never quite worked. Afterward, when Mesut had gone into that weird trance, I wondered if I should get up and go to the bathroom and try to do it by myself in peace. But it always felt like more hassle than it was worth.

It goes without saying that mastering a skill engenders a sense of satisfaction, but the feeling is ephemeral and dissipates once on the plateau of competency; because this kind of satisfaction is directed toward yourself, whereas the investment of learning about the world is repaid in love—a love of the world, a joy of living, which is permanent and will last till the grave.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.

cuanto mayor es la dificultad, mayor es la satisfacción al superarla

It's not by pursuing but by abandoning our desires that real satisfaction can be found.

Nothing was perfect, but everything was all right. The light was never just blue.