Diogenes Quote by David Markson

“Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.”

— Diana Gabaldon

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

— Diogenes

“I never realized how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a million. When you’re in the…

— Colleen Hoover

“There was great hunger and rough dominance, but all of that was mediated by a wellspring of consideration and caring. It was the yin…

— J.R. Ward

We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our…

— Alda Merini

“I began to crave not only food, but the act of binge eating. Once I’d tasted what a binge felt like—how wonderful it felt…

— Kathryn Hansen

“I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure." ”

— Wilhelm Reich

“On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation.…

— Margaret Atwood

“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are now sated,…

— Stephen Fry

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle