Craving Quotes

298 Craving quotes by 240 unique authors

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever… — Malcolm X
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all. — Margaret Atwood
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar… — James Frey
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. — Audre Lorde
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. — Alan Weisman
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby — Sophie Kinsella
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — Albert Camus
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much… — Anthony Kiedis
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving… — E. M. Forster
When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes… — Maggie Stiefvater
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. — Susan Sontag
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. — Jodi Picoult
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood,… — Anne Rice
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which… — Lord Byron
Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters. — Lewis Buzbee
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted… — Jacquelyn Frank
Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside… — Tabitha Suzuma

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