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Quotes About Craving

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
~ Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
~ Oscar Wilde
Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.
~ Oswald Chambers
The first thing I did in program was to draw up a list of things that truly give me longlasting comfort. I turn to that list when I have a craving, and I incorporate those things into my life as often as possible.
~ Unknown
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
~ Ovid
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
~ Ovid
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
~ Unknown
It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
~ Unknown
jejune longing is the chewing gum of life.
~ Padgett Powell
we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
~ Unknown
hazel eyes lasered into the screen, anticipating—no craving—an instantaneous response. Jaden had told her to text him when she was about to leave the house. So why didn't he respond? She hopped off the bed
~ Unknown
As I am, I parrot no one; I don't venture to fly to heights at which one needs wings that I don't have. But I appreciate any crumb of knowledge that affects my feelings, which, for their part, are never at rest. I am an inferno of desires. The earth and life are never too great for my ability to feel them.
~ Panaït Istrati
Randy knew he wasn't an alcoholic because an alcoholic craved liquor. He never craved it. He just drank for pleasure and the most pleasurable of all drinks was the first one on a crisp winter morning. Besides, when you took it with coffee that made it part of breakfast, and therefore not so depraved.
~ Pat Frank
There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. "Adam," I said.
~ Patricia Briggs
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling.
~ Patricia Briggs
Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.
~ Patricia Briggs
I riffled through the cupboards until I found the box of emergency cocoa. Not the milk chocolate with marshmallow kind, but the hard stuff
~ Patricia Briggs
She, human and wolf both, craved him like a junkie just as she craved all the things he seemed to promise: safety, love, hope - a place to belong.
~ Patricia Briggs
I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.
~ Patricia Highsmith
I was both fed up with explaining and desperately craving an explanation.
~ Unknown
You experience a feeling of emptiness and a yearning for something, anything, to fill up the emptiness.
~ Unknown
I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
~ Patrick Ness
The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.
~ Patrick Ness