quotes about Craving
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Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
-- Alan Weisman -
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
-- Albert Camus -
Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.
-- Ally Carter -
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The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
-- Andrew DelbancoSource : Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press
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To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
-- Ariana Franklin -
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
-- Audre Lorde -
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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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 -
I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.
-- Emile Hirsch -
Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
-- Gil Fronsdal -
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
-- Hafez -
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The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
-- Isabel Paterson -
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.
-- Je Tsongkhapa -
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
-- Johann Gottfried HerderSource : Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.
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It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.
-- Joy Browne -
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I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.
-- Kathy Reichs -
Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
-- Lewis BuzbeeSource : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan
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As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.
-- Lyle Tuttle -
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
-- Maria Montessori -
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Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.
-- Matt Haig -
Cravings are not about food. Cravings are about stress.
-- Melissa Hartwig -
Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
-- Robert Frost -
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 -
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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 -
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
-- Tim LebbonSource : Tim Lebbon (2009). “Fallen”, Spectra
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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 StekelSource : Wilhelm Stekel (1931). “Marriage at the Crossroads”