Quotes About Craving

She was easily addicted: men, food, wine. In fact, she felt like a glass of wine right now, and the sun was still high in the sky. Lately, she'd been drinking. Maybe not excessively, but certainly more enthusiastically than usual.

smart one, the one who needed more

As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't quite articulate it except with the words If only I were here. This little beachside café was so exquisite, she longed to really be there—except, of course, she was there, so it didn't make sense. "Jane?

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

But but he so sweet, she wanna lick the rapper.

I want too much. I always have.

Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world. We are like the small fish in the sea, the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones to take what's there.

Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

Some people aren't good at anything. Some people just really like donuts.

T.J. is addicted to ever new forms of comfort while oblivious to the need they might reveal;

Here's a little secret: ironically, people with dominant Seductor Imposters might seem to crave intimacy—they certainly draw people into their orbit with the promise of it—but what actually animates them behind the scenes is fear of it.

We want intimacy with others. In fact, we might crave it. But since we've never fully experienced bonds of trust, we don't allow intimacy into our lives. So we keep it at bay.

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting—no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.