Quotes About Hunger

Hit's a lot worse to be soul-hungry than to be body-hungry.

Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.

To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.

There is no explanation you can give that would explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. You can try gamely with your formulas, religious and otherwise, but you'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly

something so single-minded. Never has he felt such a hunger to belong. In the rows of dormitories are cadets who talk of alpine skiing, of duels, of jazz clubs and governesses and boar hunting; boys who employ curse words with virtuosic skill and boys who talk about cigarettes named for cinema stars; boys who speak of "telephoning the colonel" and boys who have baronesses for mothers.

and she is so afraid to try her French that she goes to bed hungry.

Maybe his body is giving up. If he does not eat, he understands, he will die. But when he does eat, he fells as if he will die.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

To me India is not much different from Pakistan. The problems are the same: poverty, hunger, abuse of human rights. The dreams are the same too - of providing for our families and giving the best education to our children.

I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you've got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you're sitting there and thinking: 'what's in the press, what's in the fridge?'

Necessité fait gens méprendre Et faim saillir le loup du bois.

Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for some one.

She is hungrier than I am, she said to herself. She's starving. But her hand trembled when she put down the fourth bun. I'm not starving, she said—and she put down the fifth.

She is always starving for new books to gobble

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

You see, I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even PRETEND it away.