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Quotes About Hunger

Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.
~ Alexander Dumas
A man gets an appetite when he starts to eat.
~ Alexander Dumas
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
~ Alexandre Dumas
The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
~ Alexandre Dumas
algunos que fracasan en practicar las Disciplinas las descuidan simplemente porque no las desean, y no las desean porque no tienen hambre de Dios. No conocen a Dios, por lo que los medios divinos para experimentar y disfrutar a Dios personalmente no les son atractivos.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Those who eat too much and those who intentionally eat too little are looking for satisfaction in something other than God.
~ Donald S. Whitney
The more you eat, the more you poop.
~ doofus
He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even more intimate, someplace where heart and soul melded into a yearning so strong, that she wanted to weep from it.
~ Dorien Kelly
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The years have passed, and most of the legislation called for by those workers is on the books now. I wonder how many realize just how much they owe the hunger marchers, who endured fast and cold, who were like the Son of Man, when He said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
~ Dorothy Day
Nearly everyone wants as least one outstanding meal a day.
~ Duncan Hines
Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
~ Yelawolf
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
~ Amy Hempel
To have and to want more that is life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
~ Samuel Johnson
Everything you want in life has teeth.
~ Jonathan Carroll
A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Did you bring people to where the action could be found?" God asks: "if you just entertain them or console them, tickle theirs, woe to you! At the throne of grace, I could have CHANGED THEIR LIVES! Did you dazzle them with your cleverness or did you make them hunger for ME!?" If a meeting doesn't end with people touching God - what kind of meeting is it? - Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
~ Jim Cymbala
There's no way you can convince a conventional military thinker that the price of success in guerilla war is pig shit. They'll accept casualties, privation, hunger, death, destruction, murder and the CIA. But they won't accept unshined belt buckles and they damn sure won't accept pig shit.
~ Jim Morris
the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.
~ Jim Stovall
Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.
~ Jim Wallis
Food! I say 'No, thank you' to many lovely things every day. Recently I admired the slim figure of a magazine editor. 'That's your formula?' I asked her. 'I starve,' she sighed. 'I'm the hungriest woman in New York.
~ Joan Crawford
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
~ Joan D. Vinge