Quotes About Craving

We fear the thing we want the most.

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator...

no es la posesión sino el deseo lo que impulsa en secreto a la gente.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Lews Therin laughed maniacally. It

and all I have to remark is, damn the pies!

If you know your appetite will be sated, pleasure is more about the appetite than about the sating.

If you're working to restrict your food intake, a milkshake just makes you want another one.

our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get.

This explains context-dependent craving in addiction.93 Suppose an alcoholic has been clean and sober for years. Return him to where the alcohol consumption used to occur (e.g., that rundown street corner, that fancy men's club), and those potentiated synapses, those cues that were learned to be associated with alcohol, come roaring back into action, dopamine surges with anticipation, and the craving inundates.

Within reality there is a senseless craving for unreality.

Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold.

Hell, a man can lie there and want something so bad and be so full of wanting it he just plain forgets what it is he wants. Just like when you are a boy and the sap first rises and you think you will go crazy some night wanting something and you want it so bad and get so near sick wanting it you near forget what it is.

If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we'd desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.

But we're all greedy to some extent.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination

Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.

You seem like a woman in need of a healthy dose of me.

I know we planned to walk down to Schubert's for burgers, but can we go upstairs first?' She raised her eyebrows. 'What for?' 'Because I need to be inside you. Like...now.

You're like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You're shrunk up from not wanting nothing.

He felt brittle, and ravenous.

Unrequited love is just another addiction.