Satiation Quotes

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

Anton Chekhov

Men, Vitality, Degrees

Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 20, 1891.

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Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Erich Fromm

Loneliness, Boredom, Greed

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.97, A&C Black

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Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Buddhism, Pleasure

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The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Buddhism, Apples

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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleep, Evil, Unity

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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Feelings, Admiration

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

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Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

William Moulton Marston

Self, Qualms About, Water

"The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.

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