Best 568 quotes in «hunger quotes» category

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

God is calling us to change the politics of hunger because the need is especially great right now. But the opportunities are also very clear. We can do a lot, but we can't food bank our way to the end of hunger.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Hunger is the best pickle.

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Hunger is not debatable.

Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Hunger's a great spur.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Hunger steals the memory

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.