Definition of Craving

Craving

of Crave

Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

Related Definitions:

Beseeching, Crave, Desire, For, Longing, Of, Or, Urgent, Vehement

Craving Quotations

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

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh

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.
Diane Arbus

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer

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

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

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

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

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

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

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

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

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

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

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

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.
Emile Hirsch

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

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

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

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

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Craving Translations

craving in German is heftiges Verlangen, flehend

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