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Quotes About Craving

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
~ George Crabbe
Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.
~ Ilona Andrews
It wasn't even real. The thing between me and Curran. It wasn't real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.
~ Ilona Andrews
But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.
~ Iris Murdoch
But my wants are huge, my desires are rapacious, I want love, I want the splendour and violence of love, and I want it now, I want someone of my own.
~ Iris Murdoch
Every manjack craving for love, and how rarely it all worked out.
~ Iris Murdoch
Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.
~ Irvine Welsh
Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?
~ Irvine Welsh
Thir must be less tae life than this.
~ Irvine Welsh
There's nothing in his eyes but need.
~ Irvine Welsh
Los afrodisíacos son el puente entre gula y lujuria. En un mundo perfecto, supongo que cualquier alimento natural, sano, fresco, atractivo a la vista, sabroso y liviano —es decir, las mismas virtudes que uno desea en su pareja.
~ Isabel Allende
I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.
~ Marilyn Minter
I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
~ Dawn Olivieri
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
~ Alan Watts
Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
~ Robert Maclver
Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
~ Thomas Stonewall Jackson
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
~ Samuel Johnson
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
~ Goethe
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.
~ Willa Cather
We fear the thing we want the most.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
~ French proverb
There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
~ Mary Jane Sherfey