Desire Escalation Quotes

Kisses should not leave you satisfied.

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

You just get pickier. I think that's true of everything. Money, toys, girls - all the hedonistic stuff. You just raise the bar.

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

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy