Top 100 Quotes About Craving
#1. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.
Debasish Mridha
#2. The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Malcolm X
#3. Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul...
Tis my sunshine right after the rain
When my ravishing rays unfold.
Melissa Mojo Hunter
#4. Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.
Oliver Burkeman
#5. The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#6. The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
Florence Nightingale
#7. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.
Tiger Woods
#8. The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#9. A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.
Daphne Oz
#10. But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.
Rebecca Godfrey
#11. Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?
William Boyd
#12. Our ceaseless craving for more, though it can kill us when unredeemed, may be a hint of the joy that we were made for when the soul finds its center in God.
John Ortberg
#13. Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#14. Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.
Bertrand Russell
#15. We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.
Tim Soutphommasane
#17. I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.
Kelly Clarkson
#19. I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.
John Legend
#20. If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life with a magnetically attractive, plaintive craving and sorrow.
Boris Pasternak
#21. What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?
Steve Carell
#22. No matter what, love everyone because everyone is craving love.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#24. A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
#25. Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Anonymous
#26. There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he's doing. Don't deceive yourself, you don't care about how he's doing, you're just craving him, don't do it. You'll only hurt yourself.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#27. Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine .
Katerina Kostaki
#28. Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.
Ron Rash
#29. Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.
Michael Bassey
#30. My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
Susan Sontag
#31. Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure
one that leads me back home.
Donna Lynn Hope
#32. The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can't put back together and wouldn't want to even if you could.
Rebecca Harris
#34. Humans crave knowledge. It's a defining element in our species. Something we don't see in animals in that same way, something we don't see in Scion, unless it's a craving that takes a very different form in execution.
Wildbow
#35. I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.
Sheena Easton
#36. Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#37. There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#38. Whenever I drink too much, I get this craving for bread." He watched me with amusement as I mashed two slices together and ate them, like an eager communicant
Eva Pohler
#39. We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.
Jill Soloway
#40. The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and
Arthur W. Pink
#41. Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#42. The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
Andrew Delbanco
#43. Good morning, Amelia" greeted Rick as he walked into the room the next morning. "I'm starved. For some reason, I woke up craving strawberries.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#44. As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.
Charlie Chaplin
#45. We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#46. All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
#47. After I told you that we were getting married, you told me that you were days away from being eighteen. That intensified my craving for you." "That makes you sound like a pedophile.
Jettie Woodruff
#48. A craving to crawl out of my skin hits me like a bullet to the chest. It's not a new sentiment. It's an urge I feel at least once every hour. A potent desire to be anyone but myself. To live any life but this one.
Siobhan Davis
#49. If you have a sweet tooth and you're making a concerted effort to get yourself off sugar, take a supplement called glutamine when you have a craving (1,000 milligrams every four to six hours as needed).
Frank Lipman
#50. I needed to go. To leave here. To get away from him ... and that kiss. That kiss that ignited a craving I didn't know how to suppress.
Rebecca Donovan
#51. I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.
Anne Lamott
#52. Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
Henry Taylor
#53. There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Swami Sivananda
#54. We eat for one reason: because we love the way food tastes. Flavor is the original craving.
Mark Schatzker
#55. The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
Terry Riley
#56. Lord Kane," the king acknowledged. "Before the proceedings begin, we must say how thrilled we were to meet your PMS."
Uh ... "My what?" "Your personal male secretary.
Gena Showalter
#58. Now is the time to recall the enthusiasm of our first fervor, the determination to offer ourselves unreservedly, and at the same time to let go of the craving for emotional consolation,
Monks Of New Skete
#59. their breasts swelling into powerful, magical globes - when he was overcome by an extraordinary craving to merge with their bodies, to suckle at their nipples, to slip into their warmth and wetness.
Irvin D. Yalom
#60. Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.
Charles Duhigg
#61. if you eat men
and still feel
like you're starving,
you're craving something
that they cannot give.
K.Y. Robinson
#62. If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
C.S. Lewis
#63. I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
Michelle Rodriguez
#64. I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'
Christa B. Allen
#65. Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh
#66. Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness.
Gillian Flynn
#67. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.
Tom Brown Jr.
#68. Love can be a form of self-harm.
Craving affection can devastate
Mohamed Ghazi
#69. The craving for recognition is every artist's Achilles heel.
Marty Rubin
#70. This is how new habits are created: by putting together a cue, a routine, and a reward, and then cultivating a craving that drives the loop.
Charles Duhigg
#72. It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
Aldous Huxley
#73. She was losing it. Needing to harden, hating that she was out of control and sloppy, she punched the leather. He needed to apologize. He needed to stop the fucking car and kiss her. She had to slap him. Eve didn't realize how badly she'd been craving this man.
Debra Anastasia
#74. Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
Gautama Buddha
#75. He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#77. Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
#78. 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 you do ...
Tony Parsons
#79. This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service.
Thomas Mann
#80. All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. 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.
Gautama Buddha
#82. Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
Lewis Buzbee
#84. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#85. Passion
it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.
Mac Anderson
#86. Or is it the monthly flushing of the cannon without a birdie?
Aporva Kala
#87. I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather
Munia Khan
#88. A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.
Anonymous
#89. Intensely craving a salad of green papaya with bird chilies that tore your mouth apart, that burned your lips, set fire to your heart.
Kim Thuy
#90. She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light.
Shannon Hale
#91. There is no escape from sordidness but by being free from money-craving, with all its base hopes and temptations, its watching for death, its hinted requests.
George Eliot
#92. A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word.
Katee Robert
#93. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort
#94. Elsie caught herself staring at it with a kind of craving that transcended hunger. She knew every cherry dimple, every beautiful chocolate curl. For her, the cake was a reminder of all that had been and a pledge of all that she'd have again.
Sarah McCoy
#95. You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand ...
Philip The Apostle
#96. Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don't seek to become free or desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present.
Eckhart Tolle
#97. 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 in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.
James Frey
#98. And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,
Since the world can in no way answer our craving,
I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.
Li Bai
#99. We all are living but for a real life, some of us are craving.
Debasish Mridha
#100. This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
Leo Tolstoy
