fulfilment quotes

Honouring itself the clay rears up To praise its pottering purposes, But, oh, much sorrow shall it sup Before fulfilment is.

- George Granville Barker
  'Goodman  Jacksin and the  Angel'.

And what you thought you came for Is onlya shell, a husk of meaning From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled If at all. Either you had no purpose Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfilment.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfilment, making the fulfilment onlya step to a further one.The vaster the power gained the vaster theappetite for more.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven, ch.9.

Contentment and fulfilment don't make for very good fiction.

-Joanna Trollope
  In TheTimes, 25 Jun.