Appetite Quote by Samuel Johnson

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

— Stella Benson

Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and…

— Anonymous

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length…

— Washington Irving

We need nature more than nature needs us.

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That…

— Ruben Papian

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“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

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

— Henry David Thoreau

As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that…

— Tenzin Palmo

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous