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Quotes About Satiation

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.
~ Fay Weldon
They ate like trash compactors with feet.
~ Harlan Coben
It's enough.
~ Steph Davis
I longed for artificial bacon bits, melted cheese in a shade of yellow unknown to nature, and creamy chocolate fillings, sometimes all in the same product. I wanted food that squirts when you bite into it or plops onto your shirt front in such gross quantities that you have to rise very, very carefully from the table and sort of limbo over to the sink to clean yourself up.
~ Bill Bryson
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas
~ Sylvia Plath
Ernest. Oh, I can't eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.
~ Frank Wedekind
for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Enough is equal to a feast.
~ Henry Fielding
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
~ Mitch Hedberg
You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?
~ Brian Regan
There's always something to eat, if you're hungry enough.
~ Terry Pratchett
he derived the law of diminishing returns: the more of a thing that you consume (be it bananas or shampoo), the less you will desire still more of it.
~ Kate Raworth
Enough. What does "enough" feel like? When happiness and contentment happen, how do you know?
~ Katherine Howe
the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.
~ Herman Melville
But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.
~ Steven Erikson
Paul lay in his room, letting the sick, glorious feeling of grease and carbohydrates carry him away. He wanted to think of nothing more than the feeling of his stomach, obscenely full for the first time ever.
~ Mur Lafferty
No thanks," I said, giving a sigh of repletion. "That was so good.
~ Charlaine Harris
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
~ George Crabbe
There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
~ Mary Jane Sherfey
If I eat another hamburger, I'll start to moo. - Rachel
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I EAT THE DARK
~ Susan Rowland
Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning's climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters.
~ Suzanne Collins
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
~ Toni Morrison
If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
~ Carolyn Chute