Craving Quotes

• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Giving, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Attachment, Suffering, Desire

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Knowing, Insecurity, Causes

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 31, 2011

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• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Perfect, Joy, Heaven

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Buddhism, People

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Adrenal Glands, Appetite

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Phrases, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Affection

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

  Clint Eastwood

  Information, Rapids, Rate

  "The Leo Tapes". Interview with Mark Harris, www.gq.com. October 8, 2011.

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

  Lauren Conrad

  Healthy, Burgers, Eating

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• Men are but children of a larger growth.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Growth

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

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• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Light

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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  The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

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• I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

  Debra Granik

  People, Shells, Towns

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

  Myles Munroe

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Desire

  Myles Munroe (2006). “Understanding Your Potential Expanded Edition”, p.150, Destiny Image Publishers

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

  Bliss Carman

  Pride, Soul, Mind

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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• Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Memories, Heart, Compassion

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Contentment, Trying, Problem

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• Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Brain

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

  Reuben Singh

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Acknowledgement

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• Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Determination, Existence, Findings

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• Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

  Sivananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Follow Your Heart

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