Quotes About Craving

Wish for what you want.

Life gives you what you are deeply longing for.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

You can get what you want.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

For each desire we fulfill in accordance with this strategy, a new desire will pop into our head to take its place. This means that no matter how hard we work to satisfy our desires, we will be no closer to satisfaction than if we had fulfilled none of them. We will, in other words, remain dissatisfied.

The profound realization, thanks to the practice of Stoicism, that acquiring the things that those in my social circle typically crave and work hard to afford will, in the long run, make zero difference in how happy I am and will in no way contribute to my having a good life.

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe iceboxand whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfastForgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold

This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S. market exists, but newspapers and other media virtuously trumpet feel-good headlines about "record drug busts" and arrests while the drug trade continues unabated.

The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.

Cum carne nutriuntur vita carnis—the lusts of the flesh are nourished when the body is pampered.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his heart break with the wanting.

Everyone is hungry. That won't stop

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

Much like the rat that presses the lever for more cocaine and forgets to eat, we'll crave music that pushes our buttons but has no sustenance.

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.