Quotes about Craving

and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.

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

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.

My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.

To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the garbage of any superstition that is offered to it.

I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.