We live in a simulated reality, craving an image that has…

This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without…

— Hortense Odlum

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

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

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

— William Gurnall

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone.

— Manisha Koirala

“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”

— Roxane Gay

“Yeah, and there’s this constant refrain from privileged people; it’s like they’re all racing to prove how miserable they used to be. Every single…

— K. Archura

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s…

— Vashti Quiroz-Vega