Craving Quotes

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

  Sivananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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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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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Positive, Negative

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

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• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Lust, Dying

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• 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

  Workout, Water, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Karl Malone

  Next Day, Work Out, Enough

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• The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Accomplishment, Battle

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Pregnancy, Common

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• 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

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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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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• 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.

  Christopher Parker

  People, Acting, Emotion

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

  Elias Canetti

  Life, Should, Endorsements

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• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

  John Dryden

  Change, Time, Children

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

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Teaching, Mindfulness

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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

  Hesketh Pearson

  Class, Stronger, Titles

  The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6

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• 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.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Past, Guarantees That, Childhood

  Isaiah Berlin (2014). “Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought”, p.387, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Blessed, People

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

  John Jay Chapman

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

  John Jay Chapman (1957). “Selected Writings”

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• 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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• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Population, World

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• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  God, Prayer, Animal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Envy, Earth

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books

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