96 Craving Quotes

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The hankering of the mind is irresistible. — Adam Weishaupt

Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires. — Leo Tolstoy

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. - Mignon McLaughlin

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin

Trying to avoid something can make you want it even more. — Turkish Proverbs

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. — Ivan Pavlov

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. - Sathya Sai Baba

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. — Sathya Sai Baba

Often does one desire what one does not need. — Icelandic Proverbs

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. — Sigmund Freud

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get. — G. E. M. Anscombe

Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. — Les Brown

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. - Francois Rabelais

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Theresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Theresa

Short Craving Quotes

  • The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James
  • I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello
  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca The Elder
  • That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave. — Lauren Jauregui
  • People think they want an accurate view of the future, but what they crave is certainty. — Morgan Housel
  • I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean? — Rakim
  • When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace. — Buddha
  • Crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant. — Tim Grover
  • What the eye can't see, the heart won't crave. — Albanian Proverbs
  • My shadow serves as the friend I crave — Anna Akhmatova

Craving Image Quotes

Food Craving Quotes

I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish. — Ignatius of Antioch

Healthy gut bacteria create a craving for healthy foods, while pathogenic bacteria create a craving for unhealthy foods. Change your microbes and you change your cravings. Change your cravings and you change your life. — Rich Roll

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

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving. — Deepak Chopra

If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff! — Jenna Ushkowitz

Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive! — David Wolfe

Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot. — Joel Fuhrman

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me. — Anthony Bourdain

Peanut butter and lamb chops were not foods that had ever been a significant part of our life before pregnancy. In fact, my wife almost never ate either.So where did these craving come from? I concluded it's the baby, ordering in. — Paul Reiser

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food. — Jennifer Ellison

Night Craving Quotes

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. — James Wolcott

Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more. — Tabitha Suzuma

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

If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know. — Dean Martin

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. — Libba Bray

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles

Hankering Quotes

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. - James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. — James Dean

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. — Bertrand Russell

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible. — Adam Weishaupt

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. — Marcus Aurelius

Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering. — Buddha

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking. — David Hockney

Don't hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love, and joy, you will become able to go beyond. — Osho

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More Craving Quotes

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. — Marcus Aurelius

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature. — Euell Gibbons

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable. — Roger Bannister

I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. — Anton Szandor LaVey

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. — Sivananda

A part of the problem is that overconsumption of sugar seems to alter our taste buds. As they become used to it, our bodies crave more and more. One illuminating 2016 study compared two groups of people who, initially, were consuming the same amount of sugar. One group was put on a low-sugar diet whilst the other group continued on their existing one. The group consuming a low-sugar diet rated the same dessert as sweeter than the group who had not reduced their sugar intake. As every month passed, they rated it as more and more sweet. This is further evidence that reducing your intake of sugar changes your sense of taste. — Rangan Chatterjee

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). — Friedrich Nietzsche

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. — Frank Zappa

Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads. —

Like it or not, we are slightly fat, furless, bipedal primates who crave sugar, salt, fat, and starch, but we are still adapted to eating a diverse diet of fibrous fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers, and lean meat. We enjoy rest and relaxation, but our bodies are still those of endurance athletes evolved to walk many miles a day and often run, as well as dig, climb and carry. — Daniel Lieberman

The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food. — Riteish Deshmukh

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. — Charles Frazier

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it. — Jonathan Keltz

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. — Peyton C. March

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous. — Stanley Kubrick

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea. — Florence Nightingale

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. — Art Garfunkel

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily. — Emma Hale

Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein

I’m not telling you to love it. I’m telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant. — Tim Grover

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving — Gil Fronsdal

I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My body has actually started craving it. — Jennifer Morrison

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me. — Ally Carter

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott

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