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Quotes About Life

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~ Voltaire
One may live without bread, not without roses.
~ Unknown
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
~ S. Truett Cathy
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
~ Thomas Malthus
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
~ Ernest Becker
All sorrows are less with bread.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.
~ Gianfranco Zola
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
~ Cyril Connolly
To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !
~ Mikhail Naimy
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
~ Peter O'Toole
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
~ Aristotle
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
~ George Herbert
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
~ Donald Barthelme
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
~ Thomas Malthus
We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.
~ Geneen Roth
It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
~ Michael Pollan
Variety in your diet is health in your life.
~ Toni Sorenson
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
~ Charles Baudelaire