satisfaction Quotes

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:love satisfaction

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:belief satisfaction

“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

topic:satisfaction

“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:satisfaction people oppression

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

topic:satisfaction food

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”

― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

topic:satisfaction

“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:self satisfaction

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:pleasure satisfaction

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:desire satisfaction

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:action satisfaction

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