Quotes About Craving

To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

The only feasible reason I can discover is a depraved appetite, giving an extraordinary craving for meat which we call "high." They are said to bury a dead body for a couple of days in the soil in a forest, and in that time, owing to the climate, it soon becomes putrid enough for the strongest stomachs.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

God is a lonely place without steak.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

How terrible the need for God.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

Desire can make anything into a god.

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.

It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won't I? in pitiful indecision.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.