Quotes About Hunger

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

War is the creator, hunger the destroyer, of all great things.

Soon after that he drank some soda-water, and went to bed: I did so too, and, I shame to confess, slept soundly, unhaunted by so much as a dream of the poor patient Bronze, whom we had left in the chilly bleak dawn, alone with his hunger and sorrow. We hear a very great chatter of "sympathy" in this world: is there aught of it, I wonder, that is anything beyond fellow-feeling?

I continue to work with the materials I have, the materials I am made of. With feelings, beings, books, events, and battles, I am omnivorous. I would like to swallow the whole earth. I would like to drink the whole sea.

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

Nos cœurs sont des affamés. Notre esprit ne connaît pas le repos. La vie est belle à proportion qu'elle est féroce, comme nos proies.

La chasse est le fond de l'art. Le guet le fond de la contemplation. La faim le fond du désir. La carnivore le fond de l'admiration.

I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.

Rats were eagerly eaten, and hard cabbage-stalk, with raw potato-peelings, which had been thrown into the sewers, was used for food.

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

Rabies has a lot in Common with vampirism." said Adam

Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.

She glanced surreptitiously at Charles, but he was eating the way he usually did—like a well-mannered starving person who wasn't sure where his next meal with coming from.

Interesting, thought Brother Wolf, seeing wounded prey. An easy meal.

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame

Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!

You experience a feeling of emptiness and a yearning for something, anything, to fill up the emptiness.

So they would't suffer too much from hunger, they slept and rested in bed for as long as they could. They lost all notion of time, and if Brossier hadn't come back they would never have left that room, not even the bed, where they listened to music and little by little drifted off. The last thing they saw from the outside world were the snowflakes falling all day on the sill of the open window.

The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

That is what death is, a state of constant hunger, for the things you've left behind, for your memories, for life.