--- title: "20 Craving Quotes By Gautama Buddha" description: "20 Craving quotes by Gautama Buddha. Plus more from Gautama Buddha and more Craving sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/gautama-buddha-163_boat_seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-b_3159322.jpg" --- > [Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-be-free-of-craving-and/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/gautama-buddha-163_boat_seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-b_3159322.jpg) > [From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving-arises-fear-but-he-who-is/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/gautama-buddha-163_arise_from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving_3082244.jpg) > [Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/craving-brings-pain-craving-brings-fear-if-you-do-not-yield-to/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/gautama-buddha-163_craving_craving-brings-pain-craving-brings-fear_3184202.jpg) > [When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/when-wishes-are-few-the-heart-is-happy-when-craving-ends-there-is/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/gautama-buddha-163_buddhist_when-wishes-are-few-the-heart-is-happy-w_1534709.jpg) > [Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/happy-indeed-are-the-arahants-no-craving-can-be-found-in-them-cut-off/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/gautama-buddha-163_conceit_happy-indeed-are-the-arahants-no-craving_636228.jpg) > [To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/to-be-concerned-with-the-issue-soul-versus-non-soul-is-to-be-in/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8a/gautama-buddha-163_becoming_to-be-concerned-with-the-issue-soul-vers_1609394.jpg) > [Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/craving-and-desire-are-the-cause-of-all-unhappiness-everything-sooner/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87d/gautama-buddha-163_buddhist_craving-and-desire-are-the-cause-of-all_2265565.jpg) > [It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/it-is-ignorance-that-smothers-and-it-is-carelessness-that-makes-it/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31a/gautama-buddha-163_buddhist_it-is-ignorance-that-smothers-and-it-is_401960.jpg) > [In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/in-exactly-the-same-way-scatter-your-body-your-feeling-your/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/gautama-buddha-163_body_in-exactly-the-same-way-scatter-your-bod_2758707.jpg) > [All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/all-have-i-overcome-all-do-i-know-from-all-am-i-detached-all-have-i/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74d/gautama-buddha-163_craving_all-have-i-overcome-all-do-i-know-from-a_1360366.jpg) > [Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/rid-of-craving-and-without-clinging-an-expert-in-the-study-of-texts/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/gautama-buddha-163_body_rid-of-craving-and-without-clinging-an-e_1638977.jpg) > [Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/just-as-a-tree-though-cut-down-can-grow-again-and-again-if-its-roots/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/gautama-buddha-163_again-and-again_just-as-a-tree-though-cut-down-can-grow_2021226.jpg) > [Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/just-as-a-tree-though-cut-down-sprouts-up-again-if-its-roots-remain/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/gautama-buddha-163_again-and-again_just-as-a-tree-though-cut-down-sprouts-u_804170.jpg) > [All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the-holy-words-you-speak-are-as/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/gautama-buddha-163_calmness_all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the_481073.jpg) > [Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/confusion-conditions-activity-which-conditions-consciousness-which/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/gautama-buddha-163_activity_confusion-conditions-activity-which-cond_1822375.jpg) > [When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/when-a-man-is-stimulated-by-his-own-thoughts-full-of-desire-and/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf4/gautama-buddha-163_accomplished_when-a-man-is-stimulated-by-his-own-thou_779988.jpg) > [I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/i-have-passed-in-ignorance-through-a-cycle-of-many-rebirths-seeking/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/gautama-buddha-163_active_i-have-passed-in-ignorance-through-a-cyc_2172420.jpg) > [“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/through-the-round-of-many-births-i-roamed-without-reward-without-rest/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/gautama-buddha-163_betrayal_through-the-round-of-many-births-i-roame_757881.jpg) > [There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/there-is-no-satisfying-the-senses-not-even-with-a-shower-of-money-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c40/gautama-buddha-163_buddhist_there-is-no-satisfying-the-senses-not-ev_74797.jpg) > [(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/the-real-brahmin-is-the-one-who-has-crossed-beyond-duality-knows-no/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/gautama-buddha-163_attachment_the-real-brahmin-is-the-one-who-has-cros_3081435.jpg) ## Other authors on Craving ## More by Gautama Buddha > [Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/before-you-ve-seen-it-and-when-you-first-see-it-it-is-the-greatest/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-of-his-students-asked-buddha-are-you-the-messiah-no-answered/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/give-thanks-for-what-had-been-given-to-you-however-little-be-pure/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/for-fear-of-causing-terror-to-living-beings-mahamati-let-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/be-lamps-unto-yourselves-be-refuges-unto-yourselves-take-yourself-no/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/speak-only-the-speech-that-neither-torments-self-nor-does-harm-to/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Pain is the outcome of sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/pain-is-the-outcome-of-sin/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/it-is-because-i-perceive-the-danger-in-the-practice-of-mystic-wonders/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/so-too-monks-i-saw-the-ancient-path-the-ancient-road-traveled-by-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-one-is-the-master-of-oneself-one-is-the-resort-one-can-depend-on/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/watch-the-thought-and-its-ways-with-care-and-let-it-spring-from-love/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-is-not-low-because-of-birth-nor-does-birth-make-one-holy-deeds/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/he-who-causes-suffering-shall-suffer-there-is-no-escape/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-a-person-does-not-harm-any-living-being-and-does-not-kill-or-cause/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/the-fool-says-these-are-my-sons-this-is-my-land-this-is-my-money-in/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/craving/gautama-buddha/#itemlist", "name": "20 Craving Quotes By Gautama Buddha", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-be-free-of-craving-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/gautama-buddha-163_boat_seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-b_3159322.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/gautama-buddha-163_boat_seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-b_3159322.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/gautama-buddha-163_boat_seeker-empty-the-boat-lighten-the-load-b_3159322.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of…” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving-arises-fear-but-he-who-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/gautama-buddha-163_arise_from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving_3082244.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/gautama-buddha-163_arise_from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving_3082244.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/gautama-buddha-163_arise_from-craving-arises-sorrow-from-craving_3082244.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and…” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. 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Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the-holy-words-you-speak-are-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/gautama-buddha-163_calmness_all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the_481073.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/gautama-buddha-163_calmness_all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the_481073.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/gautama-buddha-163_calmness_all-the-holy-words-you-read-and-all-the_481073.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them…” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/confusion-conditions-activity-which-conditions-consciousness-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/gautama-buddha-163_activity_confusion-conditions-activity-which-cond_1822375.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/gautama-buddha-163_activity_confusion-conditions-activity-which-cond_1822375.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/gautama-buddha-163_activity_confusion-conditions-activity-which-cond_1822375.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which…” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. 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