Sentence Examples:
"Moderation should preside over pleasure: let us seek in new pleasures a refuge against the satiety of our souls."
For if the body of sin dies out in a man of itself, through satiety of earthly things, and because no excitement can any longer affect his exhausted powers, that is a death from which we see no new life proceed.
While we were always in dread of satiety, we have contrived to drain each joy of its best virtues.
My curiosity was likely to be gratified to satiety.
It was perhaps partly because this form of possession, of intimacy, was so new to me, and partly because I was young and still keenly sensitive to all the delights of life and not yet even on the edge of satiety.
They produce a satiety of splendor, and oppress the mind with a sense of perpetuity.
A tithe of our satiety would mean her banquet, her salvation!...
The career of sport leads only to failure, satiety, or impotence.
A French dinner is admirably calculated for leading the appetite on by easy stages to the grand consummation of satiety.
The romantic attachment flames up, and satiety quenches it.
The child must be early made acquainted with the feeling of satiety.
What a feast it will be when you are able to gratify ambition to satiety!
It seemed like the essence of human passion, the end that lovers desire, and discern faintly behind and beyond the accidents of sense and contact, like the sounding of a sweet chord, without satiety or fever of the sense.
The amusement of the second group having abated through satiety, the minds of its components turned to other topics.
The buffalo carcasses that were wasted on the great plains every year during the two great periods of slaughter (of the northern and southern herds) would probably have fed to satiety during the entire time more than a million persons.
The satiety and consequent misery produced by this terrible life are ably described by Butler.
In Thompson's poem the soul is never allowed, even in dream, to rest in lower things until satiety brings disillusion.
From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other satiety.
The ultimate result is satiety, repugnance, disgust; even the girl herself gets enough.
For sameness of incident soon produces satiety, and makes tragedies fail on the stage.
His satiety had fled the moment that his affairs were embarrassed.
On which his Majesty strictly charged the three that they should not, on peril of their lives, tell the story; his regard for me, when he had laughed to satiety, proving strong enough to overcome his love of the diverting.
Soon is there a satiety of contest to the men, a most abundant crop of whom the brass pours upon the earth; but the harvest is very small, when Jove, who is the umpire of the battle of men, inclines his scales.
It is the satiety of refinement on the part of the public which for a short time renders the change palatable.
It was a phenomenon of the same character as, in the loves of the low, the squabbling consequent upon satiety and shame.
And all the same time, the "good" man is enjoying his blissful state, without limit, or end, or satiety!
In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge.
His eyes were sullen with satiety, his heart flinty.
The feeling of satiety is hardly experienced at all, or only for a short time after each orgasm.
They openly profess debauchery, for the usual reason, that of conquering the flesh by exhaustion and satiety.
They both understood that beauty and grandeur were not far-off, hardly attained ideals, and that the great pleasures were set in the world rather as incentives and rewards, than highly seasoned daily food which must inevitably produce satiety.
These preserve them from carnal satiety and teach them to seek comfort and help.
Thus man took refuge in secrecy, which had for his satiety a piquant charm.
It may seem a hard and worldly thing to say, but it appears to me that a wise man might limit his intercourse with others before there was any danger of satiety, as it is wisdom in eating to rise from table with an appetite.
Its name is satiety, and it is bristling with difficulties.
As in watching the movements of an exquisite child, moments of satiety seemed impossibly remote.
It turned satiety into a vagabond that had not where to lay its head.
Love will survive even infidelity rather than boredom or satiety.
The third degree is satiety which succeeds to the yearning just described.
There was no forethought or plan in her triumph over satiety.
The very thought of them brought a sense of satiety and disgust; the craving for what they would give him would come again in time, no doubt, but for the moment he was sick to the very soul of all they stood for.
They have fought for this plenitude of life, for this enjoyment full to satiety.
No one however is to drink to satiety, for wine will make even the wisest swerve from the path of wisdom.
Not only ill and insupportable accidents, but even the satiety of living, inclines a man to desire to die.
Desire and satiety fill all the gradations above and below pleasure with pain.
When vanity displays herself, she is good-natured; when she hides herself, the fear of being discovered renders her sour, and she affects indifference, satiety, in short, whatever may persuade other men that she has no need of them.
Life would become a monotony, a satiety near akin to death.
Repletion, satiety, and indigestion, follow in one case precisely as in the other.
This revulsion of feeling is called satiety or weariness.
And I repeat to satiety that my conditions here are admirably helpful and favoring.
How should the endless rush of events not bring satiety, surfeit, loathing?
They, as it were, had become insensible from satiety and weariness.
The yearly repetition might naturally be expected to bring with it before long a satiety that would lead to inattention.
Now comes monotony and the fear of satiety.
If such be the result of satiety, as you say it is, namely, to lead us to the aspiration after higher enjoyments, till those aspirations point to another world, surely it is better to arrive at that result as soon as possible.
Children were shown the satiety that comes from wealth, and taught early to shun it.
Ennui and satiety sooner or later are sure to be their portion.
Man prepares for privation by satiety, and finishes his sin thoroughly before he begins to repent.
Man prepares for privation by satiety, and finishes his sins thoroughly before he begins to repent.
The wish is, in its nature, pain, and satisfaction soon begets satiety.
You are fascinated by the charms of a rural life, which you have not known long enough for satiety.
Nor is it, when newly gathered, heating, a defect inherent to the preserved fruit everywhere; nor does its richness, however great, bring satiety: in short, it is an article of food alike pleasant and healthy.
The superiority of intellectual to sensual pleasures consists rather in their filling up more time, in their having a larger range, and in their being less liable to satiety, than in their being more real and essential.
They could not persuade rational individuals that diseases do not have natural causes, such as fatigue, satiety, lack of food, corruption, or some change depending on an interior or exterior principle.
Or he may yield to a propensity till satiety succeeds, and he is left listless and jaded.
Philosophers, divines, and others, who have treated the gratification of human appetites with contempt, have, among other instances, insisted very strongly on that satiety which is so apt to overtake them even in the very act of enjoyment.
Of necessity, it must be liberally and variously supplied, or satiety follows.
There was an air of lassitude and satiety about every one present.
It raises them high above the facile farce of passion, satiety and change.
This fantastic chase has gone on for a long time without extorting from you any sign of weariness or satiety.
Other special circumstances influence even more this precocious satiety of life.
In these conditions, it is not astonishing that I should feel a growing satiety with existence.
With satiety came thoughts of the descent, and Myra pleaded piteously for a change of route.
The philosopher will be at no loss to account for the fact; for it is the frequent attendant upon that satiety which unlimited power is sure to produce, though it is often equally the passion of those who want even the necessaries of life.
Was there ever a lingering together of lovers here that was proof against ennui, against satiety?
It has occurred to me lately that my weariness of it proceeded from monotony rather than satiety.
Does the possession of a coveted object so soon bring satiety?
It is self-slain by the Nemesis of satiety.
They saw their appetites appeased to satiety.
Outbursts of satiety and weariness of life are not infrequent with him.
And my whole being felt a sensation of satiety and delicious torpor.
The bare idea of satiety, want, and, above all, of age, never entered the minds of the inhabitants.
She is not stinted as to quantity, may eat to satiety, and is even expected to improve in condition.
This is the usual slander repeated to satiety by our critics.
"I should think," replied Morley, "that with your incessant activity in the chase of pleasure, you would soon meet with satiety, and the world's stock of enjoyment would be exhausted while you are yet young."
This work was too moving and caused him great pain: neuralgia, crises of doubt, barrenness and satiety.
Accustomed to satiety, before the affairs of life were relinquished, the contrast is now all the more painful.
And with the coming of satiety, the distaste for amusement, the distrust of love, came the shadow.
Then they caused satiety to the verge of loathing.
Then he laughed bitterly, exclaiming that those joys were the very ones which produced the most disagreeable satiety.
She promised, and they embarked further upon their perilous voyage in search of an unattainable land of satiety.
Such satiety carries with it no permanence, but moves forward without rest to a renewed sense of want.
"All pleasures breed satiety, sweet sleep, Soft dalliance, music, and the grateful dance."
Joys and pleasures teach us nothing; they are evanescent, and can only bring in the long run satiety.
Youth indeed despises this species of reasoning, and imputes it to the sickness of satiety, or the coldness of old age.
No man of common understanding can have failed to perceive that, when we said that a king or an aristocracy might easily be supplied to satiety with sensual Pleasures, we were speaking of sensual pleasures directly enjoyed by themselves.
You are rich, and complain of satiety and ennui.
He also discussed in his dialogues the correctness of terms, so that he was the first person who reduced the science of giving correct answers, and putting correct questions to a system, which he himself used to satiety.
In many instances, satiety and disgust are the consequences of reiteration.
And it was not satiety, no, it was not, but a true and entire renunciation.