Quotes About Craving

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

If the appetite goes, the pain goes with it.

He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.

He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.

He was not as courteous as the average rich man, nor as intelligent, nor as healthy, nor as lovable. His mind and his body had been alike underfed, because he was poor, and because he was modern they were always craving better food.

But all that night his body yearned for Alec's, despite him.

With nothing to look forward to but the next meal, the human animal attaches a preposterous importance to his feeding.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.

I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst.

Feast" I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. I gnawed at every root. I ate of every plant. I came upon no fruit So wonderful as want. Feed the grape and bean To the vintner and monger: I will lie down lean With my thirst and my hunger.

GENNARO Ma vedite che s' 'a da fa' pe' magna.»

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

the best of all sauces is hunger

There's nobody doesn't want something.

Elisabeth hungered after pain, other people's pain to dull her own; the pain of those poor everyday people fed her life. She had become addicted to misery.

Betcha can't eat just one.

You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one… on toast!

Hit's a lot worse to be soul-hungry than to be body-hungry.

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.