Starving Yourself Quotes

• My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

  Tracey Gold

  Walking Dead, Zombie, Body

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• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Fitness, Taste

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

  Celia Imrie

  Hurt, Selfish, Love Life

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• If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Giving Up, Starving

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• But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.

  Alyson Noel

  Beautiful, Girl, Sick

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

  Jan Murray

  Dieting, Littles, Starving

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• You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Couple, Lying

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.179, Penguin

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