102 Quotes About Starvation

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if I don’t find them more … they die.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.