Quotes About Hunger

An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

For all of my life I have needed more.

My life has been one long longing.

They thus remained almost motionless, while their supply of meat dwindled alarmingly.

Now that he's up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people's hearts and minds.

It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.

Depression as Denial of the Self Depression consists of a denial of one's own emotional reactions. This denial begins in the service of an absolutely essential adaptation during childhood and indicates a very early injury. There are many children who have not been free, right from the beginning, to experience the very simplest of feelings, such as discontent, anger, rage, pain, even hunger—and, of course, enjoyment of their own bodies.

Bodiless we don't suffer: in a dream we aren't hungry, don't mourn you.

I'm hungry, I'm sick, I'm wounded.

just so abrupt and odd the way she went hungrily asking in the heart's thick accent

The purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to 'soften' our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the hidden 'thirst and hunger' for communion with God.

In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and demanding justice. Albert Camus, 1958

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

No sólo no sabía lo que quería, sino que me daba miedo pensarlo, pero sabía que quería más. Aquella noche descubrí la verdadera naturaleza de la ambición, desear lo que se teme, temer lo que se desea, y desear más temer más, siempre más, como un hambriento que nunca quisiera encontrar un alimento capaz de saciar su hambre. Era muy raro, era terrible, incluso terrorífico, pero eso era exactamente lo que me pasaba

We would not know what happens if we did not know extreme pleasure, if we did not know extreme pain! It is because we sense that the only way to know what we are capable of, what we care about, what we fear, is to plunge into insecurity, loneliness, hunger, and cold, that we leave home to hitchhike across the country.

Mi supuesta supercapacidad mental era sobre todo un formidable instrumento de placer: tenía hambre y me creaba universos que, aunque no me saciaran, desencadenaban placer allí donde antes había hambre.

El hambre epistolar es un arte, y yo aspiro a alcanzar la excelencia.

Los pueblos tienen en común que han conocido a la fuerza el hambre en uno u otro momento de su historia. La escasez crea vínculos. Y proporciona cosas que contar.".

El hambre soy yo.

de repente el asco se invertía y no existía una palabra para expresar su antónimo, no se trataba de apetito ni de deseo, se trataba de algo más intenso...

No se trata aquí de establecer una jerarquía entre los pueblos. Al contrario. Se trata de mostrar que el hambre es su mayor seña de identidad. A los países que nos dan la lata con el carácter supuestamente único de su población, hay que decirles que toda nación es una ecuación que se articula alrededor del hambre.".

El hombre se construye a partir de lo que ha conocido en el transcurso de los primeros meses de vida: si no ha experimentado hambre, será uno de los raros elegidos, o de esos raros malditos que no edificarán su existencia en torno a la carencia.".

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.