591 Quotes About Hunger

Hunger, pain, sorrow, suffering and death are facts. How we can feel and know that truth exists. As we also understand satiety, joy, health and happiness are real parts of life.

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

For every dollar spent on luxuries, someone somewhere goes hungry.

But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite.What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them.

Two hungers are in me, and they drive me forward. I was born to starve.

Hunger, when there is something to cure it with, is easy to cure.

Hunger has a lifelong impact, shaping not only someone's relationship with food but also their health and the health of their community. Hunger, real hunger, provokes desperation and leads to choices that might otherwise be unfathomable.

Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.

There is no recovery to manage, and no citizens to govern, if we cannot get water and food to the people.