A. N. Wilson Quotes

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished?

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.

Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.