Satisfaction

Famous quotes containing the word satisfaction:

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

“Would you not like to try all sorts of lives—one is so very small—but that is the satisfaction of writing—one can impersonate so many people.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

“Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)