Sated Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire… — Maurice Blanchot
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh.… — Henry de Montherlant
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. — Adela Florence Nicolson
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the… — Stanley Fish
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. — Seth Godin
Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse,… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… — David Brin
I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated. — Ashley Judd
When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing… — Nelly Sachs
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. — Gustave Flaubert
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against… — Maggie Stiefvater
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated… — Umberto Eco
He quietly groaned. Again and again, heâ€™d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of… — Tessa Dare
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything… — John Green
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it… — Philip Sington
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who Wrote These Sated Quotes

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