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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don’t have them they hate you because you won’t; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can’t be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may. D H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. Salvador Dali
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. Proverbs 30:15&16
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
’Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no … Rolling Stones, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, 1965
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing. Epicurus
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. George Bernard Shaw, Overruled
A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him. François de la Rochefoucauld
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau
To say it’s thrilling, yes, it’s deeply satisfying. Lt George Coker, cited Hearts & Minds, 1974