Juliette Binoche Quotes

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

I never want to be satisfied.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Desire creates its own object.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

All of us are in search of something or the other, be it dreams or success.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.