Quotes About Craving

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

She practically had to stop herself from climbing his body and empaling herself on his cock.

Desire persuades us that if only we have a pleasant breath or if only we have that spacious feeling we had earlier, then we would be happy. But desire is insatiable. As soon as we get the object or experience we have been longing for, we move on to another desire, because the more we pursue desire, the more desire we experience.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

The wickedness of man is boundless; it seems at first as if a trifle would content him, but his passions invigorate by gratification; always indulged, always craving, and continually preying on him who feeds him.

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

As the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, "The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. . . . Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains.

Not only did he choose divine fulfillment over worldly specialness, he became an expert in this distinction. In his view, people who opt for the worldly path choose "substitutes for God": idols that objectify the idolater and never satisfy the craving for happiness.[5] Even if you are not a religious believer, his list rings true as the idols that attract us.

I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.

I'm on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.

We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.

I quit steaks for a while, but it's a hard habit to break.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

I love Doritos - the nacho flavor. The Cool Ranch is good; it's a good second.

I am a kind of person who never gets satisfied.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I ain't gonna lie: I love that cheese.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

All too violently my heart still flows toward you—my heart, upon which my summer burns, short, hot, melancholy, overblissful; how my summer heart craves your coolness.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.