Quotes About Craving

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte.

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

In one of her diary entries she wrote: 'I am a bird.'8 The artist – first as a crippled child, later as a bedridden adult – clearly craved the ultimate freedom of motion epitomized by flight. Kahlo's imaginary companion – an alternate Self – could dance in a way that defied gravity, like a weightless entity.

In winter I love a pasty.

I find it much more compelling to make a four-biter that leaves you wishing that you had a fifth. I think 'the tyranny of the entree' is the right way to put it. I don't want to build this giant plate of food.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

I should have got thin, but I eat too much. I hate the word 'moderation.'

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

Sex," decided Claudia, as she brushed her teeth that night, "is at the bottom of everything. If I don't hurry up and get some pretty quick I'm going to be definitely out of luck.

Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

The result suggests that telling yourself 'I can have this later' operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree—and can be even more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually eating the treat...the ones who'd postponed pleasure ate even less than the people who had earlier allowed themselves to eat the candy at will.

With dopamine it's the craving; that's the thing that drives you, not the actual shoe. It's the chase – the thrill of the hunt driven on by cues in the environment that predict the next shoe around the corner. Dopamine does not always generate pleasure but impels you to seek rewards. You can be a very unhappy addict. If

He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...

Starving men should never pretend to enjoy a crust of bread.