Quotes About Craving

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

And then to breakfast withWhat appetite you have.

They surfeited with honey and beganTo loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a littleMore than a little is by much too much.

The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.

Great with child, and longing… for stewed prunes.

Who riseth from a feastWith that keen appetite that he sits down?

Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

A still-soliciting eye.

He was a manOf an unbounded stomach.

[A]s hungry as the Sea, And can digest as much...

Clean starved for a look.

He will to his Egyptian dish again.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

I said," Pat repeated, "I'd sure like to fuck you.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic.

The desires of the human heart know no reason or rules.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.

He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.

The junkie derives his opioid supply exogenously; while the release of endogenous opioids in the rest of us is triggered, and not always very reliably either, by stimuli such as food, sex, exercise and social interaction. We're all still seeking the same core states of psycho-chemical well-being under one description or other.