Quotes About Satisfaction

Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions; and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

Guy cradled his tux, stroking it, running his fingers incestuously over the satin stripe on the trousers. There is a satisfaction that only superb clothing can offer, the joy of man raising himself from the mud, vindicating evolution. Life cannot lack purpose if a tuxedo exists—this is the obvious reply to the Samuel Beckett canon.

You get exactly what you want, Anatole's always suspected, only when you get it it's no longer what you want, you need something else.

Having without having: it's possible, isn't it, that that's worse than not having at all?

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

to live means to lack something at every moment

In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.

Aux yeux de ces amateurs d'inquiétude et de perfection, un ouvrage n'est jamais achevé, – mot qui pour eux n'a aucun sens, – mais abandonné.

Work is never finished, only abandoned.

I'm happily single.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it? I couldn't say. I don't know anything about love anymore.

What's wrong with all of us, Bill? Can you tell me that?' 'Hell if I know', he said. 'We drink too much for starters. And we want too much, don't we?

You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it?

How anyone with a hole inside them will search on and on, sometimes all their lives, for ways to fill it.

I want to write one true sentence, he said. If I can write one sentence, simple and true, every day, I'll be satisfied.

you can share his pleasure in that achievement with a warm smile.

I'm drinking a Diet Coke, because frankly I ate a whole box of Pop Tarts yesterday and this will take it away.