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My ego is sated. -- George Michael
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. -- Adela Florence Nicolson
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. -- Gabrielle Roy
I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated. -- Ashley Judd
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. -- Horace
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. -- Pierre Corneille
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation. -- Jack Vance
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. -- Gustave Flaubert
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. -- Seth Godin
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. -- Anton Chekhov
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care? -- Lucretius
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim. -- Henry de Montherlant
When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . . -- Nelly Sachs
Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves. -- Theognis of Megara
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. -- Umberto Eco
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar. -- Philip Sington
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad. -- Hilda Doolittle
The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth. -- Karin Boye
It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again -- John Green
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. -- John Green
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel. -- Roxane Gay
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered. -- Jane Porter

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