Quotes About Craving

To paraphrase Frank Zappa, she'd thought it was a man she wanted, but instead it was a muffin.

How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.

He goes from one sensation to another — but no satisfaction.

I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.

Meeting a choice adolescent now was like smelling strawberries when you were hungry for a steak.

How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein?

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!

Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

it all comes of liking honey so much.

Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.

Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.

You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more.

Sometimes, you just want something so hard you have to lie about it, so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute, how real hunger has a real taste

Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.