Quotes About Hunger

I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

We want to be deceived. There is bread again. There are jobs.

I could not tell, now, if it was my need for knowledge that drove me of the hunger of the thing that infected the tower.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

He [God] has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors. (Luke 1:51–55 NIV)

bolted down his blood and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up...

You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza." "I did? What time is it?" "Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's in trouble.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

Açl?ktan ölmekte olan bir köpeÄŸi al?p rahata kavuÅŸturursan?z, sizi ?s?rmaz. Ä°ÅŸte insanla köpek aras?ndaki temel fark budur.

But hunger is pride's master...

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

It is some more Moral Sense. The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger.

The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a general slinking expression all over. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.

For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

Ed? Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. There's only one thing I want. What's that, Ritchie? His answer is simple. To want.