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Quotes About Hunger

We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
~ Stephen Fry
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
~ Stephen King
Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.
~ Stephen King
You can always get exactly what you desire.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
~ St. Catherine of Siena
I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
~ Louise Gluck
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
~ Matsuo Basho
Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
~ Louis J. Camuti
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
~ Mother Teresa
Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
~ Jojo Moyes
There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.
~ Jojo Moyes
there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
~ Jojo Moyes
too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. I
~ Jojo Moyes
You love the Pope, don't you, Paddy?" Tom is staring at me. "Why, I do not know," I say, surprised into honesty. "I hardly know about him. Only he did not send help to us when we were hungry at home. Perhaps he did not know.
~ Jonatha Ceely
Everything you want in life has teeth.
~ Jonathan Carroll
the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...
~ Jonathan Edwards
We want more than there is.
~ Jonathan Goldstein
A stick-thin creature, hagged and bloody-mouthed. A vision of hatred and raving hunger. A monstrosity, a parody of a human.
~ Jonathan Stroud
un hombre con fe era más peligroso que una bestia con hambre y que la fe había de ser puesta en lo más desdeñable y subjetivo.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I
~ Eric A. Shelman
I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw
~ Erin Hunter