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Quotes About Desire

He is rich enough who does not want bread.
~ St. Jerome
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
~ Derrick Jensen
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
~ Joyce Kilmer
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
~ Plutarch
It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
~ Kate Moss
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.
~ Craig Ferguson
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
~ John Updike
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
~ Samuel Johnson
How do they taste? They taste like more.
~ H. L. Mencken
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
~ William Shakespeare
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
~ Umberto Eco
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
~ George Harrison
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
~ George Crabbe
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
~ Henry George Bohn
The appetite grows with eating.
~ Francois Rabelais
Hunger is never delicate.
~ Samuel Johnson
My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.
~ Kirstie Alley
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
~ William Shakespeare
Appetite, a universal wolf.
~ William Shakespeare
I was always a junk food person, still am.
~ Dolly Parton