Quotes About Hunger

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?

Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

I remember being denied a protein bar that I went in to buy. I was so hungry, and it was before an audition, and I ran in and tried to buy this protein bar. And I checked my bank account, and it was negative 17 cents... And I remember getting on the phone with my mom and laughing that I have negative 17 cents.

I didn't eat for two days when Bill Clinton won, but after Obama's election, I was genuinely depressed.

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

I am a kind of person who never gets satisfied.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

A GLUTTON IS ONE who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?

Hunger attacks me, said Zarathustra, like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.

the overall aspect of life is not a state of need and hunger, but instead, wealth, bounty, even absurd squandering—where there is struggle, it is a struggle for power… One should not confuse Malthus with nature.

Der verschlingener des Lebens'—'The Devourer