Hunger Quotes - Page 37

• I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Ruins, Uncontrollable

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.

  Thomas Perry

  Couple, Vacation, Shoes

  Thomas Perry (1989). “Island”, Avon Books

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• Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Humble, Thinking

  "Austere Example: Pope's Message at Odds with Bishops' Lifestyle" by Peter Wensierski and Spiegel, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2013.

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• ... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Pain, Ill Health, Advice

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• Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Flying, Energy, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

  Kathy Acker

  Worry, Poverty, Driven

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Needs, Remember, Eating

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dying, Sanctuary, Hell

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• Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

  Jacques Ellul

  Hate, Pride, Men

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

  Steve Kaufman

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

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• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  Erica Jong

  Feminist, Feminism, Males

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• The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Want, Ends

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• My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

  Pat Conroy

  Running, Book, Reading

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• There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

  Anthony de Mello

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Purpose, Allegiance

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Discovery, Worry

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Blood, Water, Influenza

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Book, School

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suspicion, Indignation

  Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

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• To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Strong, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Body, Hunger And Thirst

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

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• I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Long, Common

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

  Stendhal

  Expression, Law, Suffering

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.

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