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Quotes About Craving

Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much that you could think of nothing else?" "Yes, which is why I always end up eating the whole chocolate bar anyway.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What would you like? (Maggie) I don't care. I'll eat anything not Tylenol or chocolate. (Wren)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not people, I only eat them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aren't you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I'd be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And people in Hell want ice water
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And I want out of this life on drugs.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
For all of my life I have needed more.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
~ Lionel Shriver
that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...
~ John Geddes
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
~ John Jay Chapman
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
~ John Keats
Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?" "It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.
~ John Marsden
My feet hurt, I was light-headed with stress and bad meals, and the idea of perhaps eating real food and sitting in a chair-- or even sleeping in a bed!-- sounded like bliss.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Just like a Conn, she thought. Eating everything in sight.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Tell me nothing in you chafes at the cool certainty of Faerie. That there is no human soul in you, craving touch, craving passion and emotion.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Briefly, she thought of murder. Her hands itched for the wash of blood. But this was the blood she wanted.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Passion filled him, terrible and sweet, a craving as fierce as ever. It was not something one could turn on a courtesan-this wantom cupidity-and expect him to live. But another wampyr was not prey, was not a courtesan. Another wampyr was an equal and a rival, though David might be less than a quarter Sebastien's age, and quite capable of surviving his unalloyed strength.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's an addiction. An obsession. It is not safe.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was too early for Scotch, unfortunately, because the dusty crystal decanter on the sideboard had never looked so good. Resolutely, Riel turned her back on it.
~ Elizabeth Bear