Quotes About Hunger

Being pissed off and starving doesn't mix.

Piece of advice: Don't fu.. with me while I'm hungry.

The belly will not listen to advice.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Father absence has been implicated in anorexia nervosa, in which daughters may exhibit literal father hunger by starving themselves.

Why were we hungry? my stomach cried. Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve. If the solution was so simple, why was anyone hungry? Was it only a lack of sympathy?

Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve.

Hunger brings people down, but pride can help them get up.

The person whose stomach is full does not know what a hungry person feels.

There is no such thing as bad food when you are really hungry.

You can discover the true love of your wife only in the days of hunger.

There isn't anything very tender about being in love...it's a cruel and clamouring hunger.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Every society is three meals away from chaos

My stomach was pretending to be a dog, growling at me from within. If it were a dog I would snarl back—I was doing the best I could!

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all1

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

A learned theologian has laid down That starving men may take what's necessary, And yet be sinless.

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

If there ever was a man of whom it could be said that he 'hungered and thirsted after righteousness,' it was Kafka.

for the subject of the verb to-hunger is never a name : dear Adam and Eve had different bottoms, but the neotene who marches upright and can subtract reveals a belly like the serpent's with the same vulnerable look. Jew, Gentile or pigmy, he must get his calories before he can consider her profile or his own, attack you or play chess, and take what there is however hard to get down : then surely those in whose creed God is edible may call a fine omelette a Christian deed.

All through the dark the wind looks for the grief it belongs to but there was no place for that any more I have looked too and seen only the nameless hunger watching us out of the stars ancestor and the black fields —W.S. Merwin, "Night Wind" The Second Four Books of Poems . (Copper Canyon Press, 1992)

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.