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Quotes About Hunger

The only reason I collect good money for what I do, is because I've demonstrated my ability to do it. If the taxpayers didn't give you your salary check every month until you'd delivered results, you might have to go hungry a few months,—unless you showed more intelligence than you're showing on this case.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
He who aspires to dine with the vampire must bring his own meat.
~ Ernest Bramah
Hunger is good discipline.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do you always get so hungry when you make love?" "When you love somebody.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You have that pleasant air of a dog in heat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Hunger is healthy and the pictures do look better when you are hungry
~ Ernest Hemingway
They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him. "Ay," the old man said. "Galanos. Come on galanos.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Es nebiju rad?ts, lai dom?tu. Es biju rad?ts, lai ?stu.
~ Ernests Hemingvejs
In our world of instant communication, we supplement our relationships with an assortment of technological devices in the hope that all these gizmos will strengthen our connections. This social frenzy masks a profound hunger for human contact.
~ Esther Perel
My heart's like a wounded beast, clawing me in its death-throes . . . My stomach's a bottomless pit, my mouth a funnel of fire. Hunger and thirst, hunger and thirst . . .
~ Eugene Ionesco
The hungry can't eat your tears. The poor can't spend them. They're no comfort to the afflicted and they don't bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.
~ Andrew Klavan
Nothing or no one demands you be elsewhere before that happens?' 'No. Envy me?' 'Who wouldn't?' 'Oh, there are old home bodies, even your age or less, who couldn't care less about traveling and shedding responsibilities. You know that. Not everyone has that hunger, that thirst and desire to experience and consume from the wonderful smorgasbord waiting out there.
~ Andrew Neiderman
Missing someone feels like hunger. An insatiable emptiness right at the core of yourself.
~ Andrew Pyper
There are those,' Geralt said slowly, 'who prefer the company of lepers to that of a witcher.' 'There are also those,' Three Jackdaws laughed, 'who prefer sheep to girls. Ah, well, one can only sympathise with the former and the latter. I repeat my proposal.' Geralt took off his glove and shook the hand being proffered. 'I accept, glad to have made your acquaintance.' 'Then let us go, for I hunger.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Now they are afraid, but hunger will overcome their fear.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
living with his aunt and uncle in Pripyat, Yuri can scarcely believe how well they eat. And how full he feels after every meal—uncomfortably so. When he first arrived
~ Andy Marino
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
~ Aneurin Bevan