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Quotes About Hunger

You would think that with hunger and poverty and disease to do their part, mankind would not need to look for ways to die. But that's not the case. Hardly; hardly. There is always a new cruelty, a new war. And each time, they deal out death with an enthusiasm that staggers the mind.
~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
I'd eat some pizza, if anybody decided to order one. You know. Hypothetically. – May
~ Cherie Priest
His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Every part of my body hurt. Except my heart. I saw no one, but, strange as it was, I missed no one. I longed for nothing but food and waterr and to be able to pt my backpack down
~ Cheryl Strayed
SHE EATS THE POOR AND MAKES SHELLS OUT OF HER LOVERS
~ Chet Williamson
Hunger or tasteless food, hostel life is about whatever is easier to deal with
~ Chetan Bhagat
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
~ German proverb
Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
~ Will Rogers
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
~ Gloria Steinem
There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.
~ Philippine Proverb
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.
~ H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
~ Hélder Câmara
Og silungur gengur þar á milli beina, fiskur sem enginn vill sjá á borðum hér. Hér hafa sextán kynslóðir búið í svengd og sjö þúsund kynslóðir af bleikju dáið í hárri og feitri elli. Hungrið er vofa sem alin er á hjátrú sem nærist á heimsku sem sefur hjá trú. Sá sem fyrstur veiðir í þessu vatni mun eta silung með landnámsbragði.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Prayer is hunger and thirst. Prayer is our demand on life, elevated, purified, and aware of a Divine Alliance.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
die Welt war die Suppe und das Denken meistens eine Gabel: zu einer sättigenden Mahlzeit führte das selten.
~ Harry Mulisch
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
~ Harry Mulisch
An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff
~ Harry Turtledove
So this is how we live today: by stuffing ourselves to the gills, yet somehow it only makes us more anxious, more confused, and more hungry.
~ Heather Havrilesky
The locust continues to devour the world Hunger persists Love lurches on listing to starboard like a ship in a bottle Human longing goes on Loneliness a curse Innocence persists Ignorance persists
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jorl had said he would take responsibility for his son's education. Arlo hadn't reflected on what that meant; what an historian's sensibilities would do to the keen edge of his son's hunger for learning.
~ Lawrence M. Schoen
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
~ le guin ursula k ii
It is true there are more important things than dinner, but it is difficult to keep those things in mind when you haven't had dinner.
~ Lemony Snicket
Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. "We
~ Lemony Snicket