Quotes About Craving

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

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Desire makes everything blossom

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

We are formed by what we desire

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.