102 Quotes About Starvation

У нас было одно пальто на троих, одни валенки. Мы часто сидели дома. Пробовали рассказывать друг другу сказки… Какие-то книжки… Но это было неинтересно. А интересно нам было мечтать, как кончится война и как мы станем жить после войны. Будем есть одни пирожки и конфеты.

High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom of no healthcare, bills that cannot be paid and starvation.

You have two options in life: stay home, and stay hungry, or go out there, pluck some cashews, and convert them into cash.

Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

The soldiers became desperate. 'We were absolutely, literally starved,' noted Private Joseph Martin in his diary. After four days without food, he gnawed a piece of black birch bark off a stick. Then, 'I saw several of the men roast their old shoes and eat them.

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.