Quotes About Desire

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

I got a fascination with food.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

There must be more to life than having everything.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

The covetous man is always poor.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.