Quotes About Craving

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists, then oblivion might not be the end.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable

THE ACTIONS THAT accompany the four truths describe the trajectory of dharma practice: understanding anguish leads to letting go of craving, which leads to realizing its cessation, which leads to cultivating the path. These are not four separate activities but four phases within the process of awakening itself. Understanding matures into letting go; letting go culminates in realization; realization impels cultivation.

The Four are presented in that order because that is the order in which they occur as tasks to be performed: fully knowing suffering leads to the letting go of craving, which leads to experiencing its cessation, which leads to the cultivation of the path.

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

the human eye is lustful; it craves the novel, the unusual, the spectacular.

We all know the indignities to which enslaved humans will submit themselves in order to satisfy their addictions, whether for narcotics, alcohol, tobacco, sugar or sex. The desperation, savagery and degradation they publicly display make truffling pigs seem placid and composed by comparison.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

Want a Coke?" Abra asked. "Sugar solves lots of problems, that's what I think.

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.

He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her.

by 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right.

You can always get exactly what you desire.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

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

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.