Quotes About Craving

It's a Buddhist belief. One of the states of man from the Wheel of Life. The more you eat the hungrier you get. It's considered the very worst of the lives. Trying to fill a hole that only gets deeper. Fill it with food or money or power. With the admiration of others. Whatever." "The Hungry Ghost,

Then how come you went there?" "I was lonesome. Lonesome takes what it can get.

I feel like I've been starving for decades and he's a feast.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

People are just greedy animals, after all.

True hunger makes eating more pleasurable, and this sensation better directs us

Symptoms of True Hunger Enhanced taste sensation Increased salivation Gnawing throat sensation

For example, a chronically depressed man who becomes a superachieving executive through his work addiction can feel only when he is working. An alcoholic or drug addict feels high with mood-altering drugs. A food addict feels a sense of fullness and well-being when his stomach is full. Each addiction allows the person to feel good feelings or to avoid painful ones.

Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

para muitas pessoas, o poder é como beber água salgada, ficam cada vez com mais sede. (85)

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

The things that scare us the most are also what we want most in life.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough to win you over.

There is no gem the world that can fill the emptiness in your heart.

It's better to love someone who is far and craves to be with you than to love someone who is near yet doesnt even care to see you.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

The fact that I cant have you, makes me want you even more.

I'm attracted to people I cant have.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.

It was deeper than some boy thinking she was cute. It was more like she was food and he was hungry. It was as if Mars needed her to survive.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.