Quotes About Satisfaction

How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.

Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?

She did not really mind not altogether enjoying it in bed.

There were many people . . . who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls. Work, as it now is, . . . can rarely offer satisfaction to the half-contemplative.

This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.

The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.

A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.

ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Most importantly, we shag at least twice a day. It's proper sex, relaxed and unhurried, no done on the sly.

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

as we're enjoying the twisted but undeniable sexuality which is part and parcel of the complete dominance over another human being. This is one of the things that makes policework such a satisfying career

When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing

Per me [la creazione] è come una giornata d'uragano quando la tramontana s'abbatte fischiando dai monti. L'arte per me è un tormento, angoscioso quando il lavoro va male, estasiante quando va bene: ma sempre mi possiede senza scampo. Al termine della mia giornata, sono un guscio vuoto: tutto ciò che v'era in me, è passato nel marmo o nell'affresco. Quindi non mi resta più nulla da dare altrove.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

I've seen many people with status, but I'm still looking for a happy one. Status won't sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep from sinking.

A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.

Ardo dal desiderio di spiegare, e la mia massima soddisfazione è prendere qualcosa di ragionevolmente intricato e renderlo chiaro passo dopo passo. È il modo più facile per chiarire le cose a me stesso.

to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. After all, if we may prove accurate in our predictions, we may prove inaccurate as well, sometimes ludicrously so.

Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough?

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

That's not the proof I want.' 'You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.