Satisfactions Quotes

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.