Quotes About Craving

Lust, plain and simple - if lust was ever simple.

I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

I've found out that I cannot pass up pizza without having some. I just can't! my kids have a lot of pizza. I can't go to a kid's birthday party without having a slice.

The underlying addiction is to this dream of lasting pleasure and comfort.

We put up protective walls made of opinions, prejudices, and strategies, barriers that are built on a deep fear of being hurt. These walls are further fortified by emotions of all kinds: anger, craving, indifference, jealousy and envy, arrogance and pride.

the satisfaction that we get is very short-lived.

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

no, I thought, only what it makes you do, clawing at the trees, splintering the bark like a tomcat, the blind and violent need of it, a joy, but who would not want to be relieved of it. I pity

likes to eat chocolate. Discover

It was the feel of the cigarette between his fingers he wanted, the sharp intake of tobacco smoke into the lungs, not some slow oozing of poison through his skin into his blood. Pity about the health problems. He felt rather like St. Augustine must have felt when he wrote in his Confessions: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.

What do you want? Egg in your beer?

He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.

Der Geist eines Junkies ist wie die Musik, die du aus dem Radiowecker hörst - manchmal klingt sie ja ganz hübsch, aber sie ist nur dazu da, dich zu etwas Bestimmtem zu veranlassen. Die Musik aus dem Radiowecker soll dich aufwecken; die Musik des Junkies soll dich in ein Werkzeug zur Beschaffung von immer mehr Stoff verwandeln.

My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.

this man who had so much that he wanted even more.

Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when he's hungry? I'm eight years old and chocolate pudding happens to get me hot. All I have to do is see that deep chocolatey surface gleaming out at me from the refrigerator, and my life isn't my own.