Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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.

We are never content with our lot.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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

I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.

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

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

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.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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