logo

Quotes About Hunger

Oh. Dishes are dirty? never mind, I prefer starving.
~ Unknown
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
~ Bertrand Russell
The secret to success is a burning desire.
~ Unknown
The very desire for the new is merely the hunger of the soul seeking form
~ Unknown
Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But
~ Unknown
Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca por ir a darle un mordisco.
~ Unknown
Everybody wants. Without that, what are you? Just an animal taking care of needs.
~ Marcus Sakey
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
~ Margaret Atwood
Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.
~ Margaret Atwood
We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Violent love eats up what it does love, and is mere appetite.
~ Maria McCann
Whoa, Mother Hubbard. That's some empty cupboard.
~ Unknown
Missing is the cry, the necessity for more than you are.
~ Unknown
The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.
~ Unknown
In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.
~ Glenn Beck, The Overton Window
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
~ Amartya Sen
Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
~ Pope Francis
Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.
~ Jomo Kenyatta
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
~ St. Jerome
I wish food was falling from the sky.
~ Im Yoona
But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
~ Alice B. Toklas
Hunger is not debatable.
~ Harry Hopkins
People can only be content when there is enough food.
~ Momofuku Ando