Satisfaction quotations

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◆ They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

- Hubert Selby Jr.99

◆ Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never -being satisfied.

- Zadie Smith99

◆ What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

- Toni Morrison99

◆ There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows--in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain--in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.

- George Eliot99

◆ It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.

- Santosh Kalwar99

◆ I'd eat a mosquito to satisfy my hunger for an itch. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

- Slavoj ?i?ek99

◆ She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ he who is greedy is always in want

- Horace99

◆ Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness.

- Toba Beta99

◆ Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

- Swami Satchidananda99

◆ He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

- Baltasar Gracián99

◆ You know you are truly blessed when your heart desires nothing more than what you already have and especially who you share it with.

- Abhishek Tiwari99