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Quotes About Hunger

She did not know quite yet how she had come to rely, to feed upon this anger, her only appetite.
~ Tanith Lee
Not everyone can be equal in wealth, but no one should have to starve.
~ Tanya Huff
How could she not know he was thinking about sex? he wondered. It was all he'd been thinking about for the last eighteen hours, give or take a few minutes spent thinking about keeping them both alive. Oh, yeah, and twice he'd thought about food, once about her mother, and once he'd checked to make sure he had an extra mag for his Glock.
~ Tara Janzen
And as it grew up and began to enjoy itself What would we do with an unpredictable, Powerful, bounding fox? That long-mouthed, flashing temperament? That necessary nightly twenty miles And that vast hunger for everything beyond us? How would we cope with its cosmic derangements Whenever we moved? ...If I had grasped that whatever comes with a fox Is what tests a marriage and proves it a marriage-- I would not have failed the test.
~ Ted Hughes
la sed está antes que la saciedad y vale mucho más.
~ Julio Cortazar
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
~ Julius Caesar
and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the hunger, the immortal union with darkness -- what if these things weren't fantasy but recollection or even instinct, a feeling etched over eons into human DNA, of some dark power that lay within the human animal?
~ Justin Cronin
He was Babcock and he was forever. He was one of Twelve and also the Other, the one above and behind, the Zero. He was the night of nights and he had been Babcock before he became what he was. Before the great hunger that was like time itself inside him, a current in the blood, endless and needful, infinite and without border, a dark wing spreading over the world.
~ Justin Cronin
The restraints were nothing, like paper. The rivets popped from the table and shot across the room. First his arms and then his legs. The room was dark but hid nothing from his eyes, because the darkness was part of him now. And inside him, far down, a great devouring hunger uncoiled itself. To eat the very world. To take it all inside him and be filled by it, made whole. To make the world eternal, as he was.
~ Justin Cronin
Hunger is a reliable feeling; it had a simplicity love or grief did not.
~ Justin Hill
Honesty is praised and starves.
~ Juvenal
How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?
~ K.P. Yohannan
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,
~ Kamila Shamsie
Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.
~ Kang Chol-Hwan
No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.
~ Kaori Yuki
When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.
~ Faye Dunaway
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
~ A. N. Wilson
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
~ Adam Weishaupt
The hunger for runs is always there, irrespective of whether I was getting runs or not.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.
~ Gino D'Acampo
Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.
~ Lea Michele
When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.
~ Jennifer Armintrout