Quotes About Hunger

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure, and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty.

Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.

in freezing weather. They were cold and exhausted; soon they would be starving.

It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds core, and all.

Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food.

Dinnertime comes and goes, but none of them can imagine eating. It seems like something only people in films do, something lovely and decorative, that whole act of raising a fork to your mouth. Some kind of purposeless ceremony.

It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and

smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.

??in en korkunç yan?, çocuklar?n neden aç kald?klar?n?, niçin yiyecek bulamad?klar?n? anlayamamas?.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Our lives are reduced to a tight circle. Each day revolves around what we can find to eat for the following day. And until it comes, we think about food. All day. All night. Hunger owns us.

Lack creates desire. I feel becoming it. (Le manque crée le désir. Je sens le devenir)

When a dog mews, it's because he eats him (Si le chien miaule, c'est qu'il le mange)

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

Please, sir, I want some more.

Meat, ma'am, meat.

The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.

Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.