Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

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.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

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

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

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

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

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.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

The appetite grows with eating.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.