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Quotes About Satisfaction

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I eat, I perspire, I sleep, I excrete, I regret my choices, I yearn for the past. I have a very full schedule.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will tell you what I think. I think kings happen because some people have an empty place inside them that wants to be full and it will do anything to feel full and the first thing that makes it feel the opposite of empty it will chase forever and ever. And the weirdest thing about this place is that obeying fills it up, but making someone else obey makes it slosh up and splash all over the floor.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
oh, come on, you must know 'Leave It Black.' I see a black door and I'm extremely satisfied with how it looks?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much.. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them... Most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Is she happy? She doesn't understand. She has never considered it. It is possible to be so entirely happy you never ask the question. She is a full glass submerged in water. Neither nor both full and empty. The inquiry, though kind, has no meaning for her.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
He didn't believe that life was just getting a job you hated and working really hard at it so you could earn enough money to have periodic fun.
~ Cathy Yardley
Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage? I read on, and I find myself smiling at that sound-fleshed young girl, her daring and her folly and her many fears.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I cast for comfort I can no more get By groping round my comfortless than blind Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find Thirst's all-in-all in all a world of wet.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Vooruitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed ook, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg.
~ Gerard Reve
It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true meaning of the fairy tale and the nature of the magic kiss of which it speaks.
~ Germaine Greer
Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.
~ German proverb
Sta?o si? dla mnie jasne, ?e w ?yciu nie oczekuje si? od nas ?adnych nadludzkich dokona?. Usatysfakcjonowani, szcz??liwi ludzie odnosz?cy sukcesy maj? sprecyzowane plany na ?ycie i nieustaj?co wyznaczaj? sobie nowe cele, czasem proste, czasem z?o?one, ale mimo wszystko cele
~ Gertrud Hirschi
You did right, my dear," said Mr. Alden. "People should have what they want on birthdays.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup
~ Gertrude Stein
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
~ Giacomo Casanova
L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions. Because it expresses the fact that the human spirit in a certain sense. Is greater than the entire universe. Boredom, is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the souls boundless needs.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
La felicità non è che il compimento
~ Giacomo Leopardi
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
Consumimos em espetáculo aquilo que a vida real nos recusa: sexo porque estamos frustrados, aventura porque nada de palpitante agita nossas existências no dia a dia; ...
~ Gilles Lipovetsky