HUNGER QUOTES II

quotations about hunger

Hunger is a spiritual exercise to the devout, but a trial to others.

IBN MOUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

WILLA CATHER

"The Burglar's Christmas,", Home Monthly, Dec. 1896

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Our stomachs
Will make what's homely savoury.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline

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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

HELDER CAMARA

Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings


There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

MAHATMA GANDHI

The Spirituality of Bread

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God never sendeth the mouth but he sendeth meat.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

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A hungry man is an angry man.

AZIZ DWEIK

Time Magazine, Apr. 10, 2006

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When we understand hunger in its full immediacy, we are grasped by inescapable truth: hunger is a threat. Hunger is a political threat because the existence of the hungry is a stinging indictment against the political status quo. Hunger is a social threat because the hungry, having little to lose, are likely to fight by whatever means necessary to disrupt the social order. Hunger is a personal threat because to unflinchingly perceive the realities of hunger is to confront one's own inhumanity.

DAVID L. L. SHIELDS

"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger


Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

HOMER

The Odyssey

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Hunger is a bunk, a bed frame, when one hungry person is watching the others. But that is deceptive, I can sense in myself that hunger is climbing into us. We are the frame for the hunger. All of us eat with closed eyes. We feed the hunger all night long. We fatten him up, for the shovel. I eat a short sleep, then wake up and eat the next short sleep. One dream is like the next, each involves eating. Our compulsion to eat finds a merciful outlet in our dreams, though that, too, is a torment.

HERTA MÜLLER

The Hunger Angel


One who could hunger could starve.

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Lilith's Brood

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A hungry bear dances badly.

GERMAN PROVERB


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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The Poisonwood Bible

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A hungry dog does not fear the stick.

ITALIAN PROVERB


The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.

BONO

2004 PENN Address

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Despite the overt powerlessness of the hungry, hunger itself is a profound and omnipresent threat. And so hunger must be domesticated. For the status quo--political, social, and personal--to remain, hunger must be tamed.

DAVID L. L. SHIELDS

"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger


There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

STEPHEN KING

Duma Key

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A light belly, heavy heart.

GERMAN PROVERB