Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
I'm as hungry as ever.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.
We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.
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.
Under every deep a lower deep opens.
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant
I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.
