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Updated: September 9, 2025
It is unsatisfying because even the greatest men of science, although they possess the intellects of giants, have still the hearts of children. And children cling to that which is endowed with a human shape and has been given the warmth of living flesh.
"I have always regretted," said Cortlandt, "that I was not born a thousand years later." "Were it not," added Ayrault, "that our earth is the vestibule to space, and for the opportunities it opens, I should rather never have lived, for life in itself is unsatisfying." "You fellows are too indefinite and abstract for me," said Bearwarden. "I like something tangible and concrete.
She did not know how to offer sympathy, or to enhance a gift by the manner of giving. Her father had sacrificed everything to multiply and keep his wealth; all earthly happiness had been given up for it; and unsatisfying as it had been to her own heart, it had satisfied his.
In Shakspere's world the supernatural sanctions have almost disappeared, but the moral law is still supreme. Yet in some ways it is a very unsatisfying world. In its deeper aspects woe predominates over joy.
Gooseberries burst at the wrong end and smother you; melons as the nigger boy discovered make your ears sticky; currants, when you have removed the skin and extracted the seeds, are unsatisfying; blackberries have the faults of raspberries without their virtues; plums are never ripe. Yet all these fruits are excellent in their season.
It is only by selecting circumstances, and excluding ills which are the lot of all, that I could ask to live forever, even in the gardens of Zenobia. 'I do not think we differ much then, said Fausta, 'in what we think of human life. I hold the highest lot to be unsatisfying.
"Do you mean that Polly Burton has a chance to live without an operation?" Miss Patricia demanded in grim tones when her two companions had finished their unsatisfying explanation of what had taken place. Mrs. Bishop shook her head. "I am afraid not; that is why we took the risk of bringing her home to you when she wished so much to come."
So worthless it is, so unsatisfying, so inadequate to purpose, so false to hope and at its best so brief, that for consolation and compensation we set up fantastic faiths of an aftertime in a better world from which no confirming whisper has ever reached us across the void. Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but Hell is an inference from analogy.
But I am so contradictory, so unsatisfied and so unsatisfying. I understand myself better than I want to, and yet I do not understand myself at all." "That is because you are growing," said Marjorie, with her wise air. "I haven't settled down into a real Marjorie yet. I shouldn't know my own picture unless I painted it myself." "We are two rather dangerous people, aren't we?" laughed Hollis.
The lawyer, shrewd enough to understand that his principal was being baited, now took a hand. "You may rely on Mr. Pierce to have the woman suitably cared for." Now the editorial smile turned upon William Douglas. It was gentle, but unsatisfying. "And the reporter will be discharged at once," continued Elias M. Pierce, exactly as if Douglas had not spoken at all. "Mr.
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