Quotes About Craving

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

We want more than there is.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

No one can have all he desires.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.