the satisfaction of a special Pninian craving.

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the…

— William Butler Yeats

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of…

— Jeffrey Klein

It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the…

— Ronald Rolheiser

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

— Mignon McLaughlin