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Quotes About Craving

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
~ Voltaire
Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.
~ Unknown
Hunger allows no choice.
~ W. H. Auden
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.
~ W. H. Auden
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have, not universal love but to be loved alone.
~ W.H. Auden
What mad Nijinsky wrote/ About Diaghilev/ Is true of the normal heart;/ For the error bred in the bone/ Of each woman and each man/ Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love/ But to be loved alone.
~ W.H. Auden
You can have anything you want
~ Jenifer Lewis
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
~ Khalil Gibran
When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.
~ Richard Simmons
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
~ Hermann Hesse
Hungry people are eventually going to eat, and eat with a vengeance!
~ Phillip C. McGraw
Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury. --Jordan
~ Piers Anthony
La amistad del amante no brota del buen sentido, sino como las ganas de comer, del ansia de saciarse.
~ Plato
True satisfaction is only for what has its plentitude in its own being; where craving is due to an inborn deficiency, there may be satisfaction at some given moment but it does not last.
~ Plotinus
knew how hungrily they would lap up the twin rivers of blood and milk.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Grandpa Mo choked out. They...they...they are hungry. Very hungry.
~ R.L. Stine
Where are you going?" "To get a Coke!" "Would you—" "No!
~ Rachel Caine
Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool
~ Rachel Caine
She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters' convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.
~ Rachel Caine
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. You burn so very brightly, you know Yeah, she muttered. You said.
~ Rachel Caine
All I ever think about is food or sex.
~ Rachel Cohn
The more he gives me, the more I want.
~ Rachel Cohn