Quotes About Gratification

Spoiled children often grow up to be unhappy because people in the real world don't respond to their every whim.

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what's so awesome about images vs. videos is that instant gratification.

We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.

It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.

When a child is deprived and neglected, he has a much harder time delaying gratification. Our wounded inner child believes that there is a severe scarcity of love, food, strokes, and enjoyment. Therefore, whenever the opportunity arises to have these things, our inner kid goes overboard.

I did it my own self to gratify.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

After the pain, the pleasure.

The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.

What well being in a barefoot piss after a strenuous and proper screw.

Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.

Nothing wrong with the world that a juicy steak couldn't cure.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

He doesn't object to her sexualization, he just wants to be in control of it, and he wants it oriented towards his gratification. His demand that she not show off her body is not based on the viewpoint of a responsible parent but rather is more like the attitude of a jealous boyfriend.

As a result, we don't see anything wrong with aiming more at personal gratification than at God's glory in the plans and choices we make, in some part because we believe that our earthly happiness is the primary way God's glory is revealed.

Self-indulging is how we worship the idol of comfort, and orienting our lives on whatever promises to provide it in the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable way is how we bow down. As with any kind of idol, the appeal to immediate gratification is why self-indulgence snares us.