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Quotes About Craving

I get needy I need more than any person should need anything
~ Bett Williams
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.
~ Betty Friedan
Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.
~ Beverly Lewis
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
~ Bhagavad Gita
Hope is the name of this river, whose water is Desire, And Thirst the waves thereof.
~ Bhartrhari
I've suddenly realized what you mean to me: You create the need which you fill, the hunger you sate.
~ Bill Hayes
I've suddenly realized what you mean to me: You create the need which you fill, the hunger you sate. Like Jesus. And Kierkegaard. And smoked trout …
~ Bill Hayes
The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
~ Bill Hicks
As your society becomes more unequal, you are more likely to be depressed." Humans, he continued, "crave connection—to other people, to meaning, to the natural world. So we have begun to live in ways that don't work for us, and it is causing us deep pain."7 If we wanted to somehow engineer
~ Bill McKibben
You gotta want it.
~ Bill Murray
Q. How do you feel when there is no coffee? A. Depresso.
~ Bill Thomas
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
~ Boy George
My spinach feta wrap usage rate is off the charts.
~ Mina Kimes
You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs.
~ Gregory Maguire
How like a spoon with a razor edge is human need.
~ Gregory Maguire
And a recipe on this page. It says 'Of apples with black skin and white flesh: to fill the stomach with greed unto Death.
~ Gregory Maguire
gave up Nutella in December 2011. A few years later I thought I would be able to handle the Nutella once more so I bought two jars on sale. I ate 4,000 calories of Nutella over 36 hours.
~ Gretchen Rubin
When it comes to fake food, I'm like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Pauvre petite femme! Ça baîlle après l'amour, comme une carpe après l'eau sur une table de cuisine. Avec trois mots de galanterie, cela vous adorerait, j'en suis sûr! ce serait tendre! charmannt!... Oui, mais comment s'en débarresser ensuite? - Rodolphe Boulanger
~ Gustave Flaubert
The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas; every notary bears within him the debris of a poet.
~ Gustave Flaubert
De toutes les passions, la seule vraiment respectable me paraît être la gourmandise.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give.
~ Hanif Kureishi