Craving Quotes - Page 8

• The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.

  David Platt

  Soul, Want, Taste

  "What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?". Book by David Platt, October 2013.

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• For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Sea, Heaven

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels”, p.284, Anthem Press

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• I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Rose, Bird, Pits

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

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Apples, Oatmeal, Cookies

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2003). “Between Lovers”, p.103, Penguin

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

  Lyle Tuttle

  Tattoo, Firsts, Remedy

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• Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Tea, Quiet, Thirst

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• We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Ego, Desire, Trying

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Compassion, Animal

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.110, Lantern Books

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• Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Past, Mind, Impression

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• You feel like you want something, but you don't actually know what that is. I remember waking up the other night and really craving something, but not knowing what it is. That feeling has been prominent throughout my whole life. I think I try and fill that thing with lots of different things. I can't really stay still. I can't really not be stimulated. It's kind of a search of constant stimulation through other people, substances and stuff. I think that's what our lyrical content is about.

  Matthew Healy

  Night, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  Naomi Watts

  Teacher, Interest

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

  Anne Lamott

  Strong, Littles, Fantasy

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• If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.

  William T. Vollmann

  Writing, Apology, Matter

  William T. Vollmann (1994). “Butterfly Stories: A Novel”, p.3, Grove Press

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• I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Sky, Space, Desert

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.59, Canongate Books

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

  John Fowles

  Night, Risk, Lasts

  1965 The Magus, ch.19.

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• I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Ocean, Eye, Fire

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• I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Passion, Darkness, Lasts

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• I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you feel. If you’re still craving cocaine, go ahead. You’re safe. You can crave it all you want, but I won’t let go, and if you still feel like you can’t trust yourself in the morning, and it’s what you want, I’ll drive you to rehab myself. Okay?" ~ Max

  Josh Lanyon

  Letting Go, Morning, Night

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.98, Samhain Publishing

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• It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.

  Charlaine Harris

  Beautiful, Calendars, Degrading

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.864, Penguin

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

  Joy Browne

  Women, Doe, Ifs

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

  Robert Muller

  People, World, Co Worker

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• The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Hands, Attention

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Office, Four

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

  Nic Sheff

  Sex, Real, Dark

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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