Ungratified Quotes & Sayings

Surrender isn't a one-time event but a moment-by-moment choice. — Paula Hendricks

Sheep. Looting. Cousins.
Lucien cursed and got out of bed. — Melina Marchetta

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. — Benjamin Disraeli

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. — Rumi

But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to. — David Duval

Hunger is a blade that carves me
I open my arms and pull the air in
-big hug!-
then poof, right through me, nobody there.
It's only me holding myself.
My arms wrap two times
around my own ribs,
meet behind my back for a secret
handshake.
I am not what was expected.
I'm so sharp-
it's cut me now I'll cut you.
Come closer
closer
No, come closer
I'm gonna make you see what I see. — Madeleine George

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

overnight. It had been — Barbara Taylor Bradford

Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever. — Paul Kingsnorth

We don't need no stinking badges! — John Belushi

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp. — Yanni

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. — James A. Baldwin

She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind. — Aimee Bender

Alcohol is used by millions of people, both men and women, and I will make no friends by taking the position that alcohol culture is not politically correct. Yet how can we explain the legal toleration for alcohol, the most destructive of all intoxicants, and the almost frenzied efforts to repress nearly all other drugs? Could it not be that we are willing to pay the terrible toll that alcohol extracts because it is allowing us to continue the repressive dominator style that keeps us all infantile and irresponsible participants in a dominator world characterized by the marketing of ungratified sexual fantasy? — Terence McKenna