Quotes About Craving

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

I want to feel intoxicated from inhaling the scent of you.

I am a great food lover.

I haven't had lunch for years.

I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late.

L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.

my hunger for books was constant.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.

it's not the sex you think I've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more I look at you, the more A know about us both. And the more A want to have sex with you. because there's a certain kind of sex that has an element of cleansing. it's the antidote to disillusion. the counterpoison.

Everything that has happened drives me in that direction, theoretically. But I don't feel reduced by my abstinence, as I did in the past. The craving is gone and maybe this is what reduces me. •

He writes about mud and death and he makes me hungry.

Most of our longings go unfulfilled.

Sex is what you can get. For some people, for most people it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or famous or stealing.