The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his…

“If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than…

— Tony Parsons

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 makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch…

— Karen Marie Moning

“When you break someone's heart, you also break yours.”

— David Levithan

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

— Peter S. Beagle

“human heart only sweetens when broken.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin