#craving

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

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

#content #craving #earth #envy #exiles

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#constant #craving #food #gastric #glands

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#crave #craving #follow #get #itself

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

#craving #men #mountain #new #restless

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

— Hesketh Pearson

#except #rich #riches #stronger #than

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#desire #friendship #heart #heartbreak #jamie-weise

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#desire #life #nostalgia #seasons #spring

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). ↗

— al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee

#craving-for-wealth #greed #quotes-of-prophet-muhammad #status #wealth

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#confidence #craving #doing #limitations #loser