“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”
“She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied. Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium. A rich and living peace.”
“The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.”
“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
“Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?”
“When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.”