Aesthetics Quote by Henry James

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most…

— Felix Adler

“Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow…

— Anthon St. Maarten

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the…

— Martin Seligman

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go…

— Storm Jameson

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson