Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

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.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.

I ain't ever satisfied.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

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.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

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

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.