Satiety Quotes

• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Personality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

  Michael Drayton

  Poor, Plenty

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• Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Bears, Pleasure, Fullness

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• FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Affection, Enterprising

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

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• SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Feelings

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, People, Grows

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Blessing, Contentment

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• Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Giving, Leisure

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• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Greatest Pleasures

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

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• Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
  [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

  Quintilian

  Neighbor, Pleasure

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• From abundance springs satiety.

  Livy

  Spring, Abundance

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 1,

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Pirate

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• A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Pirate, Motto, Piracy

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

  Minna Antrim

  Wall, High Heels, Bark

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• Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Heart, Literature

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• Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

  Solon

  Wealth, Outrage

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• All surfeit is the father of much fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

  Heraclitus

  Summer, God, Peace

  "Fragments (Fragment 67)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Love, Broken Heart, Infidelity

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• To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Too Much, Taste

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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