Quotes About Craving

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Você acha mesmo, Norminha, que ele está com algum interesse? Está coisa nenhuma: quem quer comer pão adormecido, carne moída, sobejo de defunto? Ninguém há de querer…

Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

Muchas veces las confesiones de los hombres expresan más bien lo que hambrea su deseo que lo poseído y lo gozado.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. We are all born despots, from the most absolute monarch in Asia to the infant who smothers a bird with its hand for the pleasure of seeing that there exists in the world a being weaker than itself.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

My belly thinks my throat's clawed out!

Squirrelpaw polished hers off, looked around for more, and sighed. "What wouldn't I give for a bowl of kittypet milk!

Dreams? What's the point of that? I dreamed I killed a huge eagle and ate it all myself, but I was still hungry when I woke up!

We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.

I don't wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural, and he had become the omnipotent ruler of a warrior nation.

She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in full view taking turnips out of the sack, she could not bear the sight of seeing food no one would let her have.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.

And this was Love—this hunger that could never be satisfied, this craving which would not be stifled or ignored—Love triumphant, invincible, immortal—the thing she had striven to slay at its birth, but which had lived on in spite of her, growing, spreading, enveloping, till she was lost, till she was suffocated, in its immensity

I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

I really relish dal chawal but my all-time favourite is Tandoori Chicken.

Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected.