Quotes About Craving

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

you'll get into this morbid state when you think if you want something, then you shouldn't have it.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

The side of me that feared fire and longed for ice, that cringed at noise and hungered for silence, that shied from touch and desired to numb itself into nothing.

I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

Antes de conocer el sabor de las fresas con azúcar, uno no las pide todos los días.

Se exactamente lo que necesita el mejor pastel del mundo para llegar a serlo: un pellizco de tus pechos.

Once you've tasted "love" from human flesh, you're forever hooked. And mermaids have quite a voracious appetite for love.

People always desire that which they cannot have.

A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.

To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.

I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.

The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

If we are being sold the idea of cool via a pair of trousers, we subconsciously feel a pressure to obtain and maintain that coolness. And all too often, when we have spent a lot of money on a desired item, we have a sinking feeling. The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

wanting is also lacking. That is what "want" means.

Some humans not only liked violence, but craved it, I realised. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted away from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. —DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

The world is what we recognize in our own will. Humans are ruled by their basic desires and lead to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation. Because those same cravings shape what we see. We end up feeding from ourselves, until we go mad.

Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation.

To want is to lack. That is what it means.