Quotes About Hunger

I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected. I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.

Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread;

Nuevamente la calle volvió a su estado habitual, de que saliera un momento, y quedó triste, fría, sucia, llena de enfermedades y de miseria, de ignorancia y de hambre.

For' (he observed), 'if every one were warm and well-fed, we should lose the satisfaction of admiring the fortitude with which certain conditions of men bear cold and hunger.

I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed...

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

One simply does not drive home from McDonald's without eating any fries.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would rightly appal them if it did.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

You can't teach hungry, my dad always reminded me. Either you are or you aren't.

Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.   I

And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. Godm he was hungry.

Love is what I sought. "Hunger," they called it.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

We are unreasonable reasonable people. Measured of the excess. We frequent madness and chaos without quite melting into it. A hunger for life always ends up bringing us back to the light.

We are the total of our longings [...]

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.

I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomplete. And none can tell when I may dine again.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn't forget the basic necessity of eating.