Quotes about Craving

A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Those who eat too much and those who intentionally eat too little are looking for satisfaction in something other than God.