Quotes About Craving

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

I constantly craved the comforts of feminine attention, even though the thought of actually getting a girlfriend, one who was into me and wanted to be with me, seemed about as real as any dozen of the myths I'd been reading about in class.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

No crime in wanting a little more

She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ...

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

I crave for mental exaltation.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is life, how deceitful are its pleasures, what horrible aspects it possesses; and this it is that makes people hermits, penitents, Magdalenes.

If life – the craving for which is the very essence of our being – were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. But as it is, we take no delight in existence except when we are struggling for something; and then distance and difficulties to be overcome make our goal look as if it would satisfy us.

El dolor no brota de no tener. Brota de querer tener y sin embargo no tener. El querer tener es la conditio sine qua non para que el dolor sea eficaz.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

All willing springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus from suffering.

after one or two bites I just don't want it.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking materials

I had never before considered the possibility that I might never even want a drink yet still be left with this horrible, throbbing vacancy in the center of my being, right where my mental health and contentment were supposed to be.