Quotes About Satisfaction

A work is finished when we can no longer improve it, though we know it to be inadequate and incomplete. We are so overtaxed by it that we no longer have the power to add a single comma, however indispensable. What determines the degree to which a work is done is not a requirement of art or of truth, it is exhaustion and, even more, disgust.

The satisfaction we take from performing a task (especially when we have no belief in the task and even disdain it) shows to what degree we still belong to the rabble.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

That, right now, is enough.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

Not only does the nation endure a Parliamentary government, which it would not do if Parliament were immoderate, but it likes Parliamentary government. A sense of satisfaction permeates the country because most or the country feels it has got the precise thing that suits it.

I cannot be content with less than Heaven.

Bao gi? chúng ta còn là nô l? c?a d?c v?ng, chúng ta không sao ??t ???c h?nh phúc. N?u ??t ???c l?i s? m?t ?i, càng có nhi?u càng lo s? nhi?u, có ?úng th? không? Tóm l?i, mu?n có h?nh phúc th?t s?, ph?i v??t lên kh?i s? hãi và ham mu?n.

ta v?n làm th?? Có bao gi? chúng ta ??t câu h?i, t?i sao chúng ta l?i làm th? không? Lòng ta còn ham ti?n b?c, danh v?ng, ??a v?, s?c kh?e, và ch? c?u bình an cho chính mình thôi, nên ch?ng bao gi? th?a mãn.

Why are things beautiful? I don't know. That's a good question. Isn't it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That's a good question? Don't you feel good when that happens?

The best that he had ever managed in bed, so far, had been the maximum of relief with the minimum of hostility.

For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure's inventions are soon exhausted.

The best joke of all is to give someone just what they've wanted.

The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

The husband who leaves nothing to desire is a lost man.

If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.

Felix's wife began to find monotony in an Eden so well arranged; the perfect happiness which the first woman found in her terrestrial paradise gave her at length a sort of nausea of sweet things, and made the countess wish, like Rivarol reading Florian, for a wolf in the fold. Such, judging by the history of ages, appears to be the meaning of that emblematic serpent to which Eve listened, in all probability, out of ennui.

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.