Quotes About Craving

Another early memory is my wish for an ugly dog belonging to a neighbour. I kept my household in turmoil for weeks to get that dog. My ears were deaf to offers of pets with more prepossessing appearance. Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. "A

The honey of God, though sealed in mystery, is what the soul truly craves. Those who meditate with undaunted patience and persistence break the mystery seal, and uninhibitedly imbibe the heavenly nectar of immortality.

His intense craving begins to pull at God with an irresistible force. The Lord, as the Cosmic Vision, is drawn by the seeker's magnetic ardor into his range of consciousness.

M]otherlessness caused one of the great thirsts of the human condition.

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Human desire is infinite by its nature; it cannot be satisfied. You must take your stand against it because you cannot satisfy it.

desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

We're adults, Robert. You can admit it. You feel a longing. I see it in your eyes. A deep, carnal hunger." She smiled. "I feel it too. And that craving is about to be satisfied." "It is?" He felt emboldened and took a step toward her. "Completely." She held up a room-service menu. "I ordered everything they've got.

ma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.

The true nature of desire is to disappear in the intensity of its search.

Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating

Mommy. I'm not joking, I'm not kidding, and I'm not playing. I need chocolate.

I never wanted someone as badly as I want you.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

Desire is infinite, fulfilment is limited

we do not desire things because they give us pleasure; but they give us pleasure because we desire them;

You know it's Sunday because no one in their right mind would ever opt for Zaxby's over Chick-fil-A unless it were Sunday and they had no choice.

but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl.

Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?

It's not easy to live with something you can't have

All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.

Not if I remember to take my pills, he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine.