Unquenchable Thirst Quotes

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

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

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

There's no such thing as enough.

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

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

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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

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

People have a wild response to something, and they want it. Sometimes people lose themselves.

Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

I'm as hungry as ever.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

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