Quotes About Craving

Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires.

Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,

No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

I'm starving, thought Horrid Henry. I'll just eat a few biscuits really, really, really quietly—

Can you remember what it was like to walk in the midst of a world of miracles? Can you remember ever traveling within a world of pure delight with a joy untainted by craving or aversion? What happened to that world? All yoga, including the Buddha's yoga, is often called "the path of return" -- a return to our true home, which we eventually come to see was never really lost.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

If you have a sweet tooth and you're making a concerted effort to get yourself off sugar, take a supplement called glutamine when you have a craving (1,000 milligrams every four to six hours as needed).

all I want is a room up there and you in it

It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.

I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.

It wasn't about opening her mind, it was about closing down the racket of thoughts and opening up her body. She was tingling and throbbing and hot, not so much from her desire specifically for rick, as from a very physical yearning for human touch, to be wanted and ravished by another person after such a long period without. His attention, his hunger, was the thrill; it was an ego massage which in itself was better than her breasts being fondled.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters!

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?

Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.

I wanted a frozen burrito. Sara died for that.