Susan Howatch Quotes

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

To have and to want more that is life.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

We are never content with our lot.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

That's the thing with me: I'm never 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.

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

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