591 Quotes About Hunger

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Smart stupid. Stupid smart.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

I just want to bethe size of a galaxyso I can eat all the stars and gas giantswithout them noticingand getting upset.Is that so bad? Isn't thatwhat love looks like? Isn't thatwhat you want, too?

Men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?