Craving Quotes

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

No craving void left aching in the soul.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

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'.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

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

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

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

I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like.

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

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.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

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.

I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

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

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

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.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.