Definition of Craving

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Craving Translations

craving in German is heftiges Verlangen, flehend

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