Quotes About Craving

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Where there is greed, there is hope.

The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me.

He ran from me whenever I wanted him, but the moment I took up my work, he would drum at the floor with his heels, crying for my attention.

He became the terrible craving, he became the thing he was doing, he became the itch, the bite, the sting, the torment, the horror, he became the loathing that refused to stop doing what it loathed to do. He became the shapeless mouth that—

Our hearts are telling us the truth—there really is something missing! The

When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.

everything is carefully designed to make people crave the food that looks far more delicious on the walls than on the tables.

We are formed by what we desire

You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy

Give me women, wine, and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard thy aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

The heart wants what the heart wants, and can't accept that it can't have it. The brain knows it can't have it, but can't argue with the heart. Now, what???

It hurts to have someone in your heart that you can't have in your arms

Sometimes a heart cannot afford to be 'just friends.'