Insatiability Quotes

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

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

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

There's no such thing as enough.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Avarice is always poor.

I always want more.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

The covetous man is always poor.

To have and to want more that is life.