Hungry Quotes - Page 25

• The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

  Rob Sheffield

  Lonely, Feelings, Hard

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.174, Crown Archetype

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• Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

  Thomas Hardy

  Past, Light, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

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• For always roaming with a hungry heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Roaming

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Princess, Simple

  Neal Stephenson (1998). “The Diamond Age”, p.468, Penguin UK

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• Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Answers, Breakfast, Dove

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.76, Dell

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• Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

  Christopher Moore

  Heart, Vampire, Dinner

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

  Isak Dinesen

  Lonely, Real, House

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

  Joseph Heller

  Cat, Fighting, Fists

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; she looked down at her chest--"and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Heart, Two

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• Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

  Karen Chance

  Irritation, Meat, Doe

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• It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Grief, Winter

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• People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Sight, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.42, Penguin

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• One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

  Eric Carle

  Morning, Sunday, Eggs

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.7, Penguin

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• Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

  Holly Lisle

  Hurt, Attitude, Adventure

  Holly Lisle (2010). “The Silver Door”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Sacrifice, Example, Pay

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• ...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Country, Men, Names

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, People, Dinosaurs

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Soldiers of Halla”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need." - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4

  Chetan Bhagat

  Tired, Night, Doe

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• Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Rain, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.289, Faber & Faber

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• Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Moon, Night

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• There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Simple, Blue

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

  George Eliot

  Sorry, Passion, Self

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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• In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Men, Two, Creepy

  A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan

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