SATIETY

Related Subject: Boredom

1. There is no sense of weariness like that which closes a day of eager and unintermitted pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten and the core sticks in the throat. Expectation has given way to ennui, and appetite to satiety.—C. N. BOVEE
   

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

3. The best of things, beyond their measure, cloy.—HOMER, Iliad
   

4. Where's the eye, however blue,
   Doth not weary?
   Where's the face One would meet in every place?
   Where's the voice, however soft,
   One would hear so very oft?—KEATS, Fancy
   

5. Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.—LAURENCE HOPE, I Arise and Go Down to the River
   

6. Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

7. Better go away longing than loathing.—Proverb
   

8. Enough, with over-measure.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
   

9. To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
   More than a little is by much too much.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. As a surfeit of the sweetest things
    The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

11. Spare diet is the cause love lasts,
    For surfeits sooner kill than fasts.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, Against Absence