Craving Quotes

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Sorrows
  • Craving
  • Undamaged

• Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Affection
  • Craving
  • Overpowering

• Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Attention
  • Improvement
  • Example

• The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Fire
  • Phases
  • Craving

• People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Understand
  • Rather
  • Spoken

• Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Existence
  • Birth

• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  

  Andrei Voznesensky
  • Urge
  • Craving
  • Howl

• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Honor
  • Selfishness
  • Covetousness

• We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Grace

• Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happy
  • Cutoff
  • Arahants

• One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

  

  Aristotle
  • Respect
  • Honor
  • Aim

• To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Soul
  • Issue
  • Craving

• 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
  • Advertisements
  • Forbearance

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Perfect
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

  

  Andrew Delbanco
  • Culture
  • Craving
  • Transcendence

• Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Tree
  • Craving

• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Grief
  • Craving

• Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Craving

• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

  

  Aung San
  • Believes
  • Heroism
  • Craving

• The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Music
  • Desire
  • Craving

• Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Matter