Quotes About Hunger

And all the time he knew it was his hunger eating him.

There is a German word, Sehnsucht , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.

Often a hungry person will wolf down unpalatable food; but as his stomach swells, he'll suddenly notice how bad the food is and fell nauseated.

I sat down to a lavish meal of Irish stew, boiled salad with beets, celery, potatoes doused in cream sauce, haddock and rice, and a long cheeseboard piled with pungent varieties and tasty rolls. I ate with fiendish voraciousness, and slowly, my hunger subsided and my nerves calmed.

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

You will be glad to know that Mary has made something special for dinner. Something edible, I hope. Her lips twitched. Absolutely. Then it's doubly a pity that I don't want dinner this evening. The hunger that roared through him had nothing to do with food. No dinner? But Mary- Are you hungry? She gave an odd flicker of a smile. I couldn't eat anything now if my life depended on it. Her admission relaxed his taut nerves. She was as affected as he was. Good. That's how it should be.

Taken food from a child.

In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it.

The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.