591 Quotes About Hunger

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

And even though they had eaten nothing, the girl still ended her day with a belly full of story—which sticks to the ribs even better than mutton.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

Nothing," she said, "upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears.

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

They did not kill Hunger, for people were made to always want new things to taste. They did not destroy Poverty, for poverty reminds us to be humble. They did not destroy Sleep, for people sometimes need to forget their troubles and restore their energy. And they did not defeat Old Age, for there must always be room for the new people being born.

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.