Sense Gratification Quotes

#1. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#2. One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.

Anonymous

#3. My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Chanakya

#4. One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Ramesh Menon

#5. In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Radhanath Swami

#6. I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#7. This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).

Richard Eyre

#8. Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Thorstein Veblen

#9. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

William Ellery Channing

#11. It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jan De Bont

#12. He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

Dave Eggers

#13. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.

Walt Frazier

#14. Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.
Lake

Colleen Hoover

#15. The world speaks many languages, the boy thought

Paulo Coelho

#16. The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

Ashley Montagu

#17. Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Ellis Peters

#18. Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground

Demi Lovato

#19. I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To "prove" I wasn't a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm's way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.

Christina Enevoldsen

#20. Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

Joel Edgerton

#21. In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat For Lashes

#22. I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

Vin Diesel

#23. I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

#24. There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Joe McNally

#26. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Isabel Allende