Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

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

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

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

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable …

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

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

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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

Too much is never enough.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.