Quotes About Hunger

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Tutto era razionato: zucchero, sapone, olio, e soprattutto il sale in zucca, ché di quello ce n'era davvero poco. Perché quando che hai fame, e questo chissà se tu lo puoi capire da là dove stai, la testa non funziona più come prima, s'incaglia, ché non ti consola nemmeno avercela ancora sul collo, se non te ne fai più niente.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

when people are tired, they're more vulnerable to temptation. Nutrition is another. When we're hungry, our will is weakened.

world of poverty and hunger and crime and disease and greed and dishonesty and prejudice and war and genocide and religious bigotry and runaway population growth and abuse of the environment and immigration strife and you-get-the-leftovers educational policies and a hundred other horrors?

if you cannot control your hunger and appetite, good luck managing your blood chemistry, metabolism, waistline, and, in the bigger picture, the prospect of crippling your brain.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

and she starting barking impatiently a half hour before each feeding time.

fundamental principle of the body's weight-control systems: Impose a change in behavior (for example, by restricting food), and biology fights back (with increased hunger). Change biology, however, and behavior adapts naturally—suggesting a more effective approach to long-term weight management.

Conventional diets aim to shrink body fat by restricting calorie intake. But this approach is doomed to fail in the real world, because it targets the symptoms, not the root cause of the problem. After a few weeks of calorie restriction, the body fights back, and makes us feel hungry, tired, and deprived.

But it had been a few moments since Joe had last eaten and he was hungry.

I had gotten hungry for bratwurst and had been walking toward the entrance of one of the four McDonald's franchises in Undisclosed (if you think it's weird getting a bratwurst from a McDonald's, then you're not from the Midwest). I glanced at the cartoon clown logo in the window and let out a scream. Just a little scream, and a manly one. But I still frightened one little girl on the sidewalk so badly that she screamed, too.

For our kind, there's always the burning to be more. (...) that is why true human beings feel more pain. Because we are more, but it's never quite enough - never.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

You gotta want it.

The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.

...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

I can never be satisfied I always look for more.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.