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Quotes About Craving

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
~ Sara Gruen
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
~ Sara Zarr
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
~ Jonathan Swift
I have crushes on women all the time.
~ Adam Lambert
I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
~ Brittany Daniel
Nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer
~ Marguerite Duras
I notice that I desire him.
~ Marguerite Duras
I desperately want to partake of the world which emerges from the lips of Lol Stein, I want to be a part of this lie which she has forged. Let her bear me with her, let our affair take, from this point forth, a different course, let her consume and crush me with the rest, I shall bend to her will, let my hope be to be crushed with the rest, to be bent to her will.
~ Marguerite Duras
preferably desperate. And
~ Marian Keyes
We always want what we can't have.
~ Marian Keyes
standing quietly by the window still hungry for I don't know what
~ Marie Howe
Need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?
~ Marilynne Robinson
For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.
~ Marilynne Robinson
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into it so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?
~ Marilynne Robinson
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?
~ Marilynne Robinson
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
~ Marilynne Robinson
El sexo había sido para él, igual que el alimento, algo que aplacaba una necesidad primaria y luego producía hastío
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!
~ Marisha Pessl
When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.
~ Marisha Pessl
Picked up by lecher fingers stuck on greedy hands craving more greasy death in whatever form it comes. There's nothing left of me. I am completely burnt to a crisp. Uhmm, says the recently re-elected President, looking into the camera, telling it like it is: these extra-crunchy alien moonbeams sure are finger-lickin' good.
~ Mark Amerika
The Second Noble Truth of the Buddha takes its cue from this experience. It is traditionally described as the truth of "the arising of dukkha," and its central tenet is that the cause of suffering is craving or thirst. The
~ Mark Epstein
We've been talking a lot about dependencies. Things you get dependent on ... Smack but also people. You get dependent on people. Like… emotional dependencies. Which are just as addictive. OK?
~ Mark Ravenhill