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Quotes About Craving

One simply does not drive home from McDonald's without eating any fries.
~ Internet meme
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
~ Edgar A. Guest
For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.
~ Terri Guillemets
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
~ Woody Allen
My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"
~ Internet meme, 2014
Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.
~ @AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2010
A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.
~ Terri Guillemets
The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.
~ Grace Paley
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
~ Grant Morrison
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.   I
~ Greg Egan
harsh childhood of conflicting influences left the kaiser a bellicose braggart whose abrasive personality concealed a passionate craving for acceptance.
~ Greg King
Love is what I sought. "Hunger," they called it.
~ Gregory Orr
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Lust on this scale was rare: it seemed a crime to waste it.
~ Guy Bellamy
Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.
~ Guy Fraser-Sampson
We are the total of our longings [...]
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.
~ Gyles Brandreth
I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.
~ Helene Cixous
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
~ H. G. Wells
I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.
~ H. L. Mencken
A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.
~ James Joyce
So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.
~ James Joyce
With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.
~ James Joyce
For that are you pining, the bark of their applause?
~ James Joyce