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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. -- H. G. Wells
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. -- C. S. Lewis
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
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
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. -- Karl Jaspers
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. -- John French Sloan
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. -- Anne Hutchinson
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. -- Jones Very
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. -- Ellen G. White
That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity -- Beryl Markham
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied. -- Lawrence Calcagno
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. -- Marcel Proust
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board -- D. H. Lawrence
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. -- Peter Singer
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. -- Louis Untermeyer
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.... -- Nichole Nordeman
You must have a cigarette. 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
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. -- Charles Baudelaire
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. -- Rollo May
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for -- Christopher Dawson
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
You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five. -- Mitch Albom
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering. -- William Butler Yeats
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist. -- William DeWitt Hyde
An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind -- David O. McKay
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
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. -- David Antin
I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians. -- Joseph Bruchac
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. -- John Ortberg
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied. -- Tabatha Coffey
They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied. -- Marcia Gay Harden
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. -- John Podhoretz
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied. -- Peter York
We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do. -- Miranda July
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. -- Christopher Dawson
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get. -- Anthony Bourdain
To be excited is still to be unsatisfied. -- Aldous Huxley
I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. -- C. S. Lewis
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. -- Gertrude Atherton
The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire. -- John Cowper Powys
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. -- Kevin Spacey
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will. -- Hudson Taylor
No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire. -- Richard P. Feynman
In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more. -- Ron Kaufman
If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it? -- Andy Couturier
I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important. -- Nancy Crow
If you are unsatisfied with what you did today, it's time to change the way you live. -- Abhinav Sakalle
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear... -- Vincent Van Gogh
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. -- Andre Maurois
You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it. -- Stephen Richards
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. -- Sigmund Freud
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. -- Leo Tolstoy
Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke. -- Erin McCarthy
She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy -- Lisa Kleypas
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. -- Carl Jung
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
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Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. -- Paul Brunton
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men. -- Susan Stebbing
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. -- Emma Goldman
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.... -- Robert Frost
I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied. -- Beth Moore

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