Appetite Quote by Jeremy Seabrook

“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is…

— Jeremy Seabrook

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in…

— Albert Einstein

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity:…

— Lewis Mumford

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round…

— Maxim Gorky

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this…

— Henry James

“We become attached to each pleasant thought, feeling, taste, smell, and sound. But because everything is impermanent, we’re craving and clinging to fleeting experiences.…

— Noah Levine

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

Desire is the very essence of man

— Baruch Spinoza

“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill…

— Osho

“Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we've worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden…

— Elena Ferrante

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they…

— Joseph Collins