Quotes About Craving

C is for cookie. That's good enough for me. Cookie Monster

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

It's absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.

Fruit only angers my need for chocolate.

Poetry drives out or suspends lust.

I read like fiends smoke crack

It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.-Eckhart Tolle

the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.

THE EGO'S SEARCH FOR WHOLENESS Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or incompleteness, of not being whole. In some people, this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough. If it is unconscious, it will only be felt indirectly as an intense craving, wanting and needing.

My longing was beyond the power of opposition;

But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what she craved, and really felt herself entitled to, was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect.

The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food and drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?

La añoranza lo acompañaba día y noche como un incesante e indefinible deseo, como el súbito antojo de un enfermo por comer o beber algo que alguna vez probó y había olvidado por mucho tiempo

He had to have her, he definitely had to have her. She was not merely the latest object on which his greedy desire to be saved had fixed itself; no, she was the woman who was going to save him. The woman whose fine intelligence and deep sympathy and divine body, yes, whose divine body would successfully deflect his attention from the gloomy well shaft of his feelings and the contemplation of his past.

Why was the centre of his desire always in a place he had just deserted?

Siento un deseo espantoso de devorar todos los libros. Pero al mismo tiempo, mi represión ética me advierte que más vale depositar mi hambre en uno solo.

Remember it . Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.