Unsatisfied Quotes

• It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Negative
  • Unsatisfied
  • Just Being

• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bird
  • Condition
  • Passions

• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

  

  Alcuin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Art

• A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Pleasure

• Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Needs
  • Humans
  • Survival

• A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Drives
  • Participants

• I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

  

  Everett Ruess
  • People
  • Acting
  • Longing

• The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mystery
  • Unsatisfied
  • Uncontrollable

• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Environment
  • Meet

• I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Desire
  • Shoot
  • Unsatisfied

• People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • People
  • Mean
  • Mistake

• You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Interest
  • Curiosity

• Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Love
  • Always
  • Moment

• No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Rich