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Quotes About Craving

There's a capacity for appetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.
~ John Steinbeck
İçimden eve gitmek istiyorum, dedim..
~ John Steinbeck
It is snowing again. Confound it, will the winter never be over? I crave to have the solid ground under my feet. You cannot understand that craving if you have never lived in a country where every step was unstable. It is very tiresome and tiring to walk and have the ground give way under you at every step.
~ John Steinbeck
There's a capacity for appetite,' Samuel said, 'that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.
~ John Steinbeck
At this very moment Pablo Sanchez happened to be sitting in the ditch at the side of the road, wishing he had a cigarette and a glass of wine. Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. Pablo
~ John Steinbeck
You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.
~ John Steinbeck
One child, refused the love he craves, kicks the cat and hides his secret guilt; and another steals so that money will make him loved; and a third conquers the world--and always the guilt and revenge and more guilt.
~ John Steinbeck
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
~ John Updike
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
~ John Updike
He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.
~ John Updike
Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.
~ Unknown
Human nature is never satisfied.
~ Unknown
I don't have expensive tastes – just bloody ones.– Vampire Dragul Mangorian
~ Unknown
Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. "I desire you so much". His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze.
~ Unknown
He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.
~ Steve Spurrier
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
~ Gautama Buddha
It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
~ Gautama Buddha
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear
~ Gautama Buddha
What is fear of need but need itself?
~ Khalil Gibran
Hours pass as I dream to remember the pressure of finally moving to a state of mind where nothing matters. All around me, we are broken. Craving for hope and craving for answers, wondering if this is the life for us. Like a caged bird forced to consume a life full of nightmares and tragedies on our own. We are broken, without a choice. Left hiding in all the small things that keep us from dying in the darkness of our own misery.
~ Unknown
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
~ Bertrand Russell
Those who Crave are sure to take disappointments to their Grave.
~ Unknown
We find desiring innocent, and hideous that the other should desire.
~ Marcel Proust
Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses
~ Marcel Proust