Quotes About Satisfaction

Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.

I always supposed I would be delicious," I hear him say, although I note that he does not take any of the meat for himself

I am used to the whipped-cream-topped drinks Vivi used to bring me, but there is something satisfyingly bracing about drinking coffee this way, hot and bitter.

It feels like a geas. It has all the sinister pleasure of sneaking out of the house, all the revolting satisfaction of stealing. It reminds me of the moment before I slammed a blade through my hand, amazed at my own capacity for self-betrayal.

Randalin rushes toward the door, nearly running into Heather in his haste. He blinks at her in astonishment, clearly not prepared for the presence of a second mortal. Then he departs, avoiding even a glance in my direction. 'Big horns,' Heather mouths, looking after him. 'Little dude.' Cardan leans against the doorframe, looking very satisfied with himself.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

If he's half as taken with you as you are with yourself, I imagine he'll be well pleased.

I pictured Locke's heart shot through with an arrow and then shook my head to get rid of the image. It wasn't like me to think things like that. It especially wasn't like me to have a brief jolt of satisfaction from it.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it is sated, it transmutes. If we receive the golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

Everything was boring. Everything was fine.

All I have bought myself is worse problems, no matter how good it felt to salve my pride.

I will make him proud of me. Everyone else, I will make very, very sorry.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes.

Watching his fear ripen fills me with an almost voluptuous satisfaction. I, who have had little power in my life, must be on guard against that feeling. Power goes to my head too quickly, like faerie wine.

You want me to free him? Let's gut him like haddock. Quicker and far more satisfying.

Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter

Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.

Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, tendrá siempre cabida entre la planta de nuestros pies y nuestro occipucio; y tanto si cuesta un millón al año como cien luises, la percepción intrínseca es la misma en el interior de nosotros. –Gracias;

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.