Quotes About Hunger

When you find yourself wanting love, know that it is like a lake looking for water.

So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're antihunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really against.

When you feed hungry people, you are showing mercy. The search for justice begins when you ask why the hungry are hungry.

Miracles are disruptive. When the dust settles there is always damage done – not all the hungry are fed, and not all the sick are healed.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. ("The Disinheritors")

He hungered for peace and there was no peace. Terror was his only food.

She doesn't have to even give me supper. Im not hungry anyway. Im full. (Dress of White Silk)

Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.

Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture. Four billion years of evolution, and that's where the matter will end. Politically, practically, emotionally, intellectually: Humans are all that count, the final word. You cannot shut down human hunger. You cannot even slow it. Just holding steady costs more than the race can afford.

She runs the entire meal down the garbage disposal and goes hungry, a hunger more wonderful than any meal.

Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture. Four billion years of evolution, and that's where the matter will end. Politically, practically, emotionally, intellectually: Humans are all that count, the final word. You cannot shut down human hunger. You cannot even slow it. Just holding steady costs more than the race can afford.

Study your hunger and how to feed it. Trust in whatever sounds twist your viscera.

1. Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.

This land of animated wishes will expand without limits. It will fill with richer, wilder, more surprising life beyond life. The map will grow as full as the thing it stands for. And still people will be hungry and alone.

Fullness in a person cannot permit love because there are no openings, no handles, no give-and-take, and no deep hunger.

I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.

There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.

But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...

remember that men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread! And they can murder for it, too! Did we not build a nation, did we not wage war and conquer in the name of a dream to realize our personalities and to make those realized personalities secure!