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Quotes About Hunger

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
~ Jennifer Connelly
Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
~ Octavia Spencer
My kids can't eat awards.
~ Pitbull
Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it.
~ Jon Krakauer
She told herself a story about a daughter in a family so hungry for a daughter that it would have eaten her alive if she hadn't run away.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an asshole and a whiner. But that's just the player-hating fringe. I wouldn't worry about it.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.
~ Jonathan Lethem
270,000 more people become hungry each day).
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
~ Jonathan Swift
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
~ Jonathan Swift
To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Que culpa eles têm? Roubam para comer porque todos estes ricos que têm para botar fora, para dar para as igrejas, não se lembram que existem crianças com fome.
~ Jorge Amado
Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!
~ Jorge Bucay
No hay miedo que resista un estómago vacío. Un hombre o una mujer con hambre hace hasta lo imposible por cruzar. No tiene nada más que perder porque, antes de partir, ya lo perdió todo.
~ Jorge Ramos
wolves are so frightening not because of their fangs and claws but because of their intelligence, because of their hunger.
~ Joseph Boyden
All of those cases were clearly marked on the side in English: U.S.A. FOOD RELIEF It was indeed the very same food donated by Americans to Japan before the war. The Japanese military government had stolen it from their own hungry people.
~ Joseph Bruchac
Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.
~ A.A. Gill
Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.
~ A.E. Samaan
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
~ A.J. Quinnell
Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
I read and reread these pages all day long as I sat next to the cast-iron stove. In the absence of coal, we burned wooden boards pilfered from the rubble of destroyed houses in order to keep warm in these chilly early days of spring. In times of plenty my appetite had always been small, but now I often went hungry.
~ Élisabeth Gille
Would you like to have
~ Aaron Elkins
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.
~ Aberjhani