Khalil Gibran Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

• ...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

  Khalil Gibran

  Justice, Greed, Hunger

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real Friends, Boards

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Pride, Self

• For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

  Khalil Gibran

  Food, Humor, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.46, Lulu.com

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Evil, Hunger And Thirst

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dark, Water, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

• O love, whose lordly hand
  Has bridled my desires,
  And raised my hunger and my thirst
  To dignity and pride,
  Let not the strong in me and the constant
  Eat the bread or drink the wine
  That tempt my weaker self.
  Let me rather starve,
  And let my heart parch with thirst,
  And let me die and perish,
  Ere I stretch my hand
  To a cup you did not fill,
  Or a bowl you did not bless.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Heart, Wine

  "'Love' ('The Forerunner')". Poem by Khalil Gibran, gutenberg.net.au. 1920.

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