Quotes About Craving

Desire creates its own object.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

Chicken and waffles! I'm obsessed with those.

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.

Try feeding a five-day hunger with some OJ that tastes like a cup of freezer burn, and nothing to wash it down but a bunch of words you can't get out of your head.

Mato de hambre al amor, para que devore lo que encuentre.

Desire turns us into ghosts

it is always what we want, not what we have, that claims our attention.

You get so you kind of like the feeling of being hungry.

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

La sete di storie diminuiva se si poteva viverne una?

He was studying his grandmother, as if he was hungry too, but for something not food, hungry in a way that food could never fill.

You're always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them -- You don't want to love -- your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

You don't want to love—your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth...!

John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.