Quotes About Craving For Love

#1. Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

Ruth Reichl

#2. 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 if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.

Jodi Picoult

#4. What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult

#5. In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

Lord Acton

#6. How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Virginia Woolf

#7. I do not crave anyone that will fix me. Just someone who will hold my hand while I fix myself.

Unknown

#8. We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

John Lancaster Spalding

#9. The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

Helen Fisher

#10. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.

Mary Shelley

#11. I can't explain my feelings for him ... they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.

Nadege Richards

#12. What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you ... We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Because it was the endless wanting that would break you, I thought. The constant craving for a love that might never be fulfilled that would bring you low, bit by bit, until one day you'd no longer be able to recognize any part of yourself.

John Burnham Schwartz

#14. The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Marion Woodman

#15. He is the greatest mystery I had even known, one that always had me craving just a little bit more.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Frederick Buechner

#17. If you can't be happy and content by yourself then you shouldn't be in a relationship.

Evan Sutter

#18. Rather than crying & craving for those who left our path during dark moments of our life, lets spend some time to thank them who stood and helped us to pass those dark paths.

Nehali Lalwani

#19. Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.

Gretchen De La O

#20. If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.

Vironika Tugaleva

#21. Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply.

Kamal Ravikant

#22. The craving to touch her is like an itch I can't scratch.

Siobhan Davis

#23. Has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?

Jess Walter

#24. Romantic love is not an emotion ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Helen Fisher

#25. 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, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Anne Rice

#26. We all are living but for a real life, some of us are craving.

Debasish Mridha

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. No matter what, love everyone because everyone is craving love.

Debasish Mridha

#30. A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.

Gina Greenlee

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. We eat for one reason: because we love the way food tastes. Flavor is the original craving.

Mark Schatzker

#34. if you eat men
and still feel
like you're starving,
you're craving something
that they cannot give.

K.Y. Robinson

#35. If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Love can be a form of self-harm.
Craving affection can devastate

Mohamed Ghazi

#37. 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

#38. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I won't let you have it. I won't give you this moment. I won't let you fill up this valuable organ ... I own it. I won't do it. I can't think, I won't think about it.

Coco J. Ginger

#40. Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Brennan Manning

#41. Even in one's most physical moments, the real craving was for love.

Damon Galgut

#42. Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Bliss Carman

#43. I love sweets. I have a tendency to go out at, like, 11 P.M. and get a giant piece of cake because I'm craving it. The problem is if you eat a big piece of cake that late, you wake up in the morning feeling really sick.

Brendan Robinson

#44. I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Irvin D. Yalom

#45. My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.

Sri Aurobindo

#46. She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it 'loneliness that crowds couldn't cure'.

Cupcake Brown

#47. All your wounds from craving love
Exist because of heroic deeds.

Hafez

#48. I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

Chloe Thurlow

#49. Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious remembrances for hours after. It has you craving it days later. And it has you aching for it if you don't get it for awhile.

Roberto Hogue