Unsatisfied Quotes

“How often do we not scold or call ourselves to order? If our needs are utterly fulfilled, it may be that we still remain unsatisfied. By creating additional wants or artificial wishes, we generate a cascade of new desires that outshines our search for genuine needs. Through our loss of authenticity, we fade away in the vapor of pathetic shallowness or vanish into the flamboyance of trivial limelight. ("Consumers' Dream")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“You don't much like anything, do you?"

"No, nothing," said Anna, smiling her nice fat malign smile.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.”
― Anthony Liccione

“What do you want me to say?"

"I wish you would say something. Our life goes by without any comment.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“Why did no one satisfy her? What was she looking for that she couldn't find? Her battered heart offered her no answers.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?”
― Anthony Liccione

“He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.”
― Naomi Ragen, Jephte's Daughter

“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me.
.. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied.
What happened to me?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The new artistic urge often led to cathedrals being left unfinished or, if finished, to their giving us the feeling, of which Goethe was the first to become conscious, that they are somehow incomplete, indeed impossible to complete, because in the process of endless, interminable development. This impulse into the unlimited, this inability to be content with any conclusion, comes out all the more clearly in the Passion plays because of their extreme naïvety. It is in the ‘drama of movement’ of the Middle Ages that its dynamic sense of life, its unrest, dissolving traditional modes of thought and feeling, its nominalistic turning to the multiplicity of changing and transitory particulars, are most directly apprehended.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

“Yet she knew that it was not really the sharp tragic knife of passion that disturbed her now, it was some vaguer nervous storm out of her unsatisfied woman's nature.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“For love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which satisfied love appears to understand.”
― Jorges Luis Borges

“Some people eat to quench hunger, and some eat just to satisfy their gluttony.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn’t take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

“Successful people who don't know what to do with their recent success get quickly bored with it.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If life has left me hungry, it’s probably not for lack of food. Rather, it’s likely because I’m eating the wrong food at the wrong table.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“I knew very well I couldn't give you many things you desired, but then neither will any other woman because what you want doesn't exist and you don't know how to want what's closest to you.”
― Antonio Muñoz Molina, In the Night of Time

“A cheating partner is a person who is either in bondage or isn’t loved the proper way.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Uriah is a good soldier—but a poor husband. He's not interested in spending time in bed with me. He'd rather be with his army friends. If my husband won't satisfy my needs, I have a right to have them satisfied by someone else.”
― Chester Brown, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible

“My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.”
― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd