Satisfaction

Famous quotes containing the word satisfaction:

“Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)