“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.” FoodMelancholyGastronomySatiationRed Inn Book:The Human Comedy: Selected Stories Source: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.” IfsHappinessPleasureDealsBuddhismEnjoyableTransientSatiation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?” IfsDoeHappinessDesireBuddhismTenFactorsFulfillmentApplesWhy NotPieMake You HappyApple PieSatiation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.” MenFirstsStatesDegreesHungryVitalityImpudenceSatedSatiation Author:Anton Chekhov
“The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.” Would BeEvilSleepEmptyUnityEmptinessDreamless SleepSatiation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.” DoeLonelinessOvercomingGreedBoredomEmptinessSatiation Book:To Have Or To Be? Source: To Have Or To Be?
“Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.” LoveShouldWellsFeelingsLoversAriseConquerAdmirationMaking LoveDesolationAdmiringMisusedSatiation Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.” SelfSpeakWaterDrinkEarsResponseDesertComic BookTravelerThirstySophisticationQualmsQualms AboutSatiation Author:William Moulton Marston