Top 100 Quotes About Craving
#1. 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
#4. Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the soul abandons Him to whom it ought to cleave as its end, and becomes a kind of end to itself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#5. People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.
Emma J. Bell
#6. The extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. It was somehow degrading, craving someone so ... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.
Charlaine Harris
#8. I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
Karl Malone
#9. If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.
Jerry Ferrara
#10. Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
#11. Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
Charles Duhigg
#12. The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
Storm Jameson
#13. Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.
Joel Fuhrman
#14. the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
Ellen Key
#16. Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
Seneca The Younger
#17. He is the greatest mystery I had even known, one that always had me craving just a little bit more.
Nikki Rowe
#18. Okay, let's do a tally. You think I'm infuriating, wimpy, and...adorable."
"I never said adorable."
He shifted closer, craving the heat of her body. "I know, but you're thinking it.
Cathryn Fox
#19. 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
#20. Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.
Misty Copeland
#21. And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.
T. S. Eliot
#22. Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
Doris Lessing
#23. Craving more of her touch, i shifted on the floor so my arm touched her shoulder. Echo's lips never moved, but my siren sang nonetheless. Her song seared my skin and my nose burned from her sugar and cinnamon scent.
Katie McGarry
#24. While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
Lew Wallace
#25. In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely.
Megan Chance
#26. But to overpower the habit, we must recognize which craving is driving the behavior. If we're not conscious of the anticipation, then we're like the shoppers who wander, as if drawn by an unseen force, into Cinnabon.
Charles Duhigg
#27. The point is to test different hypotheses to determine which craving is driving your routine. Are
Anonymous
#28. 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
#29. Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
Laura Riding
#31. In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.
Nancy Mairs
#32. We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
Pankaj Mishra
#33. A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It's up to you.
Vicky Arthurs
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. If you can't resist a burger craving, then go for it, but take off the cheese (that saves you at least 120 calories), avoid special sauces, and make burger "topless"---eat only one side of the bun. Or you can wrap the burger in lettuce and forget the bun entirely.
Bob Harper
#37. As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave ... overtook him with unwanted intensity.
Georges Rodenbach
#38. When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy.
Geoffrey Wood
#39. Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.
Deepak Chopra
#40. Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
Susan Cain
#41. 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
#42. But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
Agatha Christie
#43. I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.
Nikki Sex
#44. He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.
E. M. Forster
#45. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
Anais Nin
#46. O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness
a knell. / I have not always been as now:
Edgar Allan Poe
#47. I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.
Emile Hirsch
#48. The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
Helen Fisher
#49. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
Andrew Weil
#51. The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.
Robert Muller
#52. Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow and fear. Sorrow and fear spring from affection; from indulgence in sensual pleasures; from preoccupation with lustful pleasures; from craving.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#53. I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter shows featuring detective characters who are fun to watch. I think people would welcome that kind of show.
Carol Higgins Clark
#54. Judging from the state of my consciousness at the time, millions of years of hominid evolution had produced nothing more transcendent than a craving for a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake.
Sam Harris
#55. I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
John Legend
#56. I like really uberfeminine, classic-looking things mixed with something rougher around the edges. I've been looking at Rihanna a lot, checking her out. She's got something going on that I am sort of craving a little bit.
Jessica Biel
#57. It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D.H. Lawrence
#59. The one thing I've learned while doing this work is that as much as I enjoy playing out romantic fantasies, it's still just pretend, and more and more I'm craving something real.
Leisa Rayven
#60. He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a psychiatrist. The little bit of a thing was smarter than most.
V. Theia
#61. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
#62. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thoughts could reach.
Knut Hamsun
#63. I'm more than twisted. I'm the worst kind of vampire ... But you're the one who's craving me, so what does that make you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#64. In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#65. Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.
Yuval Noah Harari
#66. The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.
Yuval Noah Harari
#67. Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.
E. O. Wilson
#68. 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
#69. The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.
Tara Brach
#70. The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
Florence Nightingale
#71. I still had the craving that I had given in to all summer long when I had lived on books, to have the reach to grasp both ends of the frame and turn the big image-taking glass to any scene of the world.
Saul Bellow
#72. The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
Satish Kumar
#73. Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear
Gautama Buddha
#74. I was speechless and utterly craving what he had just declared.
K.M. Golland
#75. Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.
Deepak Chopra
#76. Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.
Naomi Watts
#77. When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
Gautama Buddha
#78. I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
Sue Monk Kidd
#79. What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
Jodi Picoult
#80. The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.
Henepola Gunaratana
#81. It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.
Sigmund Freud
#82. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
Gautama Buddha
#83. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
Rollo May
#84. 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
#85. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Wilhelm Stekel
#86. Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
#87. People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.
Konstantin Ushinsky
#88. Hough I have to say nothing beats Type O mixed with a little cannabis." A muscle worked in David's jaw. "You're stoned?"
"Not Really," I said. "Though I do have a strange craving for pizza. Extra garlic.
Jaye Wells
#89. What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage
Carol Cottrill
#90. Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks
From the poem 'Exhumation
Munia Khan
#91. Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer
#92. You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel - a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady
H.G.Wells
#93. Watch your cigarette cravings in a curious, mindful way. Read CURIOSITY KILLED THE CRAVING.
Raj Fernandes
#94. As I would come to discover later in life, one shouldn't be condemned for simply craving freedom.
Ira Wagler
#95. Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
Tim Lebbon
#97. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
Eric Hoffer
#98. Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for
Michael Bassey Johnson
#99. Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!
Emily Bronte
#100. Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Sivananda Saraswati
