Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

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

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

There's no such thing as enough.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

If you desire, you are restless.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

I always want more.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

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.