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Quotes About Hunger

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.
~ Unknown
A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.
~ John Grisham
We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.
~ Jesse Jackson
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.
~ Pitirim Sorokin
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
~ Alessandro Baricco
To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.
~ Gerald May
I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
~ Karen O
Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing
~ Pandurang Shastri Athavale
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
~ Nichole Nordeman
Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.
~ Frank A. Clark
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~ Simone Weil
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
~ Mother Teresa
There was an ache in my stomach, like hunger or despair.
~ Madeline Miller
I feel like I would eat the world raw.
~ Madeline Miller
I had fed off that look once, when I had been starving and thought such crumbs a feast.
~ Madeline Miller
Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.
~ Maggie Nelson
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tener hambre y no poder comer es morir un poco cada minuto, cada segundo.
~ Unknown
People in touch with this archetype are in search of caring, for their spirit seeks to transcend the stress placed on the body and the mind by the rapid motion of everyday life around them. Such people would not be ashamed to express their hunger for transcendence — these are the kind of people in need of ritual. Ritual:
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)
~ Mao Zedong
The general guideline after 4 months of age is to feed your baby overnight when hungry, but no more than two times.
~ Unknown
Un jour vient où vous manque une seule chose et ce n'est pas l'objet de votre désir, c'est le désir.
~ Marcel Jouhandeau