Quotes About Hunger

I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

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

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

We eat breads, and we eat it with butter.While some brothers, starve for water and leave near the gutter.

People are starving for truth and leadership.

The night was warm and there was no cause to shudder save that a twinge of joy, of dark joy can shake the body, when a man is alone, under the moon, on a secret mission, with hunger in his heart and ice in his brain.

Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.

Bosch was tempted to wait in line for another round but decided to stay hungry. The

Just coffee," Bosch said. "You already ate?" Wish said when the waitress went away. "Uh, no. But I'm fine." "You don't eat much, I can tell.

And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this.

Not eating is a vice, a drug of sorts--with her stomach empty she feels quick and clean, clearheaded, ready for a fight.

Between 1845 and 1852 the country experienced the single greatest loss of population in world history: in a nation of 8 million, 1.5 million people left. Another million Irish people starved to death, or died from the effects of hunger. Inside of a decade the nation went from being among the most densely populated in Europe to one of the least.

Kansas, Concannon had explained to an executive who oversaw the state's food-stamp program how he had made it easier for people in Oregon who were going hungry to access their program. "He said," Jeez, if we did that we'd have more people coming in the door.' And I said," Yeah, but isn't that the idea?

One of Leibowitz's favorite stories was about a donkey placed equidistant from two bundles of hay. In the story the donkey can't decide which bundle of hay is closer to him, and so dies of hunger.

The future is hungry and unkind. It'll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.

Her face became tougher and leaner, the face Cara-vaggio would meet later. She was thin, mostly from tiredness. She was always hungry and found it a furious exhaustion to feed a patient who couldn't eat or didn't want to, watching the bread crumble away, the soup cool, which she desired to swallow fast. She wanted nothing exotic, just bread, meat.

Use the apple test If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry—before you eat and then again along the way. (One old wives' test: If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're not hungry.) Food is a costly antidepressant.

Gluttony is harder than it looks. It's listed as a sin, as something you give in to, when really it's a skill, requiring not just hunger but resilience. That's why the most resilient city in the country, New Orleans, is also the most gluttonous.

The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.