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Quotes About Craving

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.
~ Henry Rollins
Boredom is desire seeking desire.
~ Leo Tolstoy
That's my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it's only that I'm not caught enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to be able to utter my name — Nicola Irtenieff — and at once to see every one thunderstruck at it, and come crowding round me and thanking me for something or another, I hardly knew what.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way
~ Leonard Cohen
TAKE THIS LONGING
~ Leonard Cohen
need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw
~ Leonard Cohen
Instead of hungering after God, we've feasted at the table of cheap substitutes. No wonder we are left still hungry and longing for more.
~ Leslie Vernick
A proud heart may suffer from an inferiority complex or low self-esteem, even though these problems may seem incompatible with a heart ruled by pride. However, the insecure-yet-proud don't feel inferior due to moral failures or spiritual inadequacies, but rather because they don't measure up to the things they crave or believe are essential for their well-being.
~ Leslie Vernick
He could have eked out his sad wasted life with movies and books and masturbation and alcohol like everybody else. He would never have known the horror of really getting what he thought he wanted.
~ Lev Grossman
And I need this. That's all I can tell you.
~ Lev Grossman
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
~ lewis sinclair
Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
~ Christie Brinkley
When the urge to bake strikes, it strikes hard and fast. You want to get in the kitchen and start breaking eggs right away, so it can be real buzzkill to find out that the recipe you're using calls for room-temperature butter.
~ Claire Saffitz
Ese aperitivo que es el hambre contribuía a que todo tuviera mejor sabor aún.
~ Jean M. Auel
I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The third is to refuse the passion as one might sensibly refuse a leopard in the house, however tame it might seem at first. You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I became obsessed with anatomy. If I could not put Louise out of my mind I would drown myself in her. Within the clinical language, through the dispassionate view of the sucking, sweating, greedy, defecating self, I found a love-poem to Louise. I would go on knowing her, more intimately than the skin, hair and voice that I craved. I would have her plasma, her spleen, her synovial fluid. I would recognise her even when her body had long since fallen away.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Zina iÅŸlediÄŸimi biliyordum çünkü sevdiÄŸim ÅŸey evimin d???ndayd?.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Can I have some fish-bait?' I asked.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.
~ Jeanette Winterson