Quotes about Craving
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…
— Audrey Hepburn
When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
— James Allen
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
— Samuel Johnson
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
— Thomas Adams
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
— Albert Camus
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
— Henry David Thoreau
The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.
— Terri Savelle Foy
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
— Virginia Woolf
Power is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
— Charles Colson
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
— Oscar Wilde
What we are getting at is that, because you are a human being, there is always something you are living for; always some desire, goal, treasure, purpose, value, or craving that controls your heart.
— Timothy Lane
William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.
— Dale Carnegie