Craving Quotes

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire " ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.”
― Marion Woodman

“Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing-the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Perchance to Dream

“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy. One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. As for me, the tempest took hold of me with tyranny: I was roughly roused and obliged to live. I got up and dressed myself, and creeping outside the basement close by my bed, sat on its ledge, with my feet on the roof of a lower adjoining building. It was wet, it was wild, it was pitch dark. Within the dormitory they gathered round the night-lamp in consternation, praying loud. I could not go in: too resistless was the delight of staying with the wild hour, black and full of thunder, pealing out such an ode as language never delivered to man - too terribly glorious, the spectacle of clouds, split and pierced by white and blinding bolts.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“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

“Peace occurs when you don’t turn your observations into problems. The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a it of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe , then you are at peace.
Craving is about wanting to fix everything. Observation without craving is the realization that you do not need to fix anything. Your desires are not running rampant. You do not crave a change in state. Your mind does not generate a problem for you to solve.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more.

We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence.”
― Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief

“What will you do to me, my little sparrow? Beat your hands against my chest? Scratch me up? Shout at me in that sweet, trembling voice? If that’s the case, you tempt me to villainy, simply by making me crave the punishment.”
― Nenia Campbell, Raise the Blood

“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion become calm and incapable of producing any more karma-formations, because there is no more illusion, no more 'thirst' for continuity. It is like mental disease which is cured when he cause or the secret of the malady is discovered and seen by the patients.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“Before I even realized it, I found myself yearning more and more for the glowing you bring, unaware that I would soon be locked in a struggle to draw nearer to you, seeking your light so that I could survive.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“I have some way-down vibrating part of my subconscious that needs to self-destruct, at least a little bit.
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The pleasure of smoking for me wasn’t about a buzz; the pleasure came from the jolt of giving in to an unhealthy physical craving, which over time increased my phical cravings, which in turn increased the pleasure of giving in to them.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Jay looked at him—that was a mistake. Because the sight of Nicholas bare-chested and on his knees, looking at her body like a condemned man looking at his last meal, stole what little breath remained in her lungs. You’re the sweetest girl I know, he’d said, but sweet things got consumed until there was nothing left and she already felt like she was gone.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“You can’t imagine . . . all the different ways I’ve fucked you in my head.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“The chase feels like movement — but it leaves you farther from the moment.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Equanimity

“I had not, if truth be told, thought to wonder whether indeed a single lover might ever bring a full, rounded, complete satisfaction of all I had craved for a long time past, and that I imagined all lovers must crave.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“I head back to my apartment, but not before popping into a small creperie for a Nutella, banana, and coconut crepe because, let's be honest, I'm only human. The shop sits a few doors down from Peregrine Espresso, and even though I spend most days surrounded by flaky croissants and fudge brownies, God help me, I still cannot resist the siren song of a sweet Nutella crepe.
I order it to go, but I dive in before I even leave the store because Nutella is my kryptonite. The rich chocolate hazelnut spread oozes from within the sweet eggy crepe, each bite filled with fresh bananas and bits of toasted coconut.”
― Dana Bate, A Second Bite at the Apple

“Desire is the sister of death. It’s the incessant craving to annihilate yourself completely.”
― Naomi Love, First Date

“RIGHT AND LEFT - A HAIKU

Craving, aversion
Swinging pendulum's dance fades,
Peace in the centre.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“Crave for transcending or else it will become compulsive.”
― Dr. Ronak Kelaiya

“Any move you make
Moves you.
Whether craved or feared.
Any change changes you.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Whenever we relinquish our craving, clinging, and grasping, whenever we stop the war with reality, whenever we are totally present and undivided, we are immediately in union with our true nature.”
― Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

“The heavy cloak of the body

is always getting torn. You patch it with food,
and other restless ego-satisfactions. Rip up

one board from the shop floor and look into
the basement. You’ll see two glints in the dirt.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“His touch was fire and sin, a dangerous game between pleasure and surrender — and I was already losing”
― Weronika Brown, SZEPTY POŻĄDANIA. Romanse dla kobiet: Erotyka, miłość, namiętność i tajemnice w 6 zmysłowych opowieściach o codziennych chwilach, które mogą spotkać także Ciebie