Ooh I'm still craving to have you by my side

“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.”

— William Gurnall

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

— John Fowles

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more…

— D.T. Suzuki

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as…

— Anonymous

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love…

— Virginia Woolf

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and…

— Wilhelm Stekel

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a…

— Gautama Buddha

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

— Michel de Montaigne

When I look at you all I see is heartbreak waiting to happen. And I can't tell if it's because of love. Or loneliness.…

— Ream

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human…

— Stacy Aumonier

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout