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Quotes About Hunger

Symptoms of True Hunger Enhanced taste sensation Increased salivation Gnawing throat sensation
~ Joel Fuhrman
Eliminate All High-Fat Plant Foods High-fat plant foods include nuts, nut butters (such as peanut and almond butter), seeds, seed spreads (tahini), avocados, olives, coconut, and soybean products, including tofu (which is 54 percent fat). These vegetable foods are high in fat, which is effortlessly stored in your adipose tissue. They provide only meager amounts of carbohydrate to satisfy your hunger. Because
~ John A. McDougall
But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it, Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought
~ John Ashbery
I hadn't eaten anything at lunch, yet I wasn't hungry. The belly knows when it's not going to be fed and, like an old dog, settles down to sleep. That's how it is, I find, with the creature and its comforts, so that all is not ill, and sometimes the Lord does temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
~ John Banville
Hunger was constitutional with him, women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need until he went to pieces. The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed their piecedom but kept very quietly on among the chaos.
~ John Berryman
Never forget: it is not just outward obedience that God desires, but a broken and contrite heart, one that thirsts and hungers for the will of God.
~ John Bevere
Eating disorders. You don't know when you feel empty or hungry. You eat to fill up. You eat to feel full.
~ John Bradshaw
This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?
~ John Cheever
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
~ Unknown
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.
~ Unknown
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
~ Evelyn Waugh
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
~ Anthony Liccione
It was deeper than some boy thinking she was cute. It was more like she was food and he was hungry. It was as if Mars needed her to survive.
~ Unknown
Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way.
~ Jerry Rice
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.
~ Dan B. Allender
Whoever desires is always poor.
~ Claudius Claudianus
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.
~ Claire Messud
Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.
~ James Cook
Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.
~ Rumi
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Stanley Kunitz
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
~ Alexandre Dumas
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
~ Rumer Godden