“Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?”
“Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”
“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.”
“It's easy to hide in a crowd but it's so unsatisfying.”
“-----What is more punishedamong the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire? among the hate-filledthan hate? among the frightened than fear?”
“With his power over time, Dor could have taken anything he desired from this new world. But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.”