Hunger Quotes

If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

~ Fidel Castro

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

~ Vivian Amis

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

~ Karen Essex

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

~ Kamand Kojouri

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

~ Munia Khan

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

~ Munia Khan

Don’t sit at home and wait for mango tree to bring mangoes to you wherever you are. It won’t happen. If you are truly hungry for change, go out of your comfort zone and change the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead to the belief that a biological response, more food, will solve the problem.

~ Sharman Apt Russell

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.)

~ Min Jin Lee

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.We'd shut down hunger.We'd shut down loneliness.We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.

~ Ron Hall

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.

~ Aberjhani

And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well.The hunger.The desire.Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth.

~ Markus Zusak

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

~ Munia Khan

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Hélder Câmara

I read the story about the loaves and fishes and thought about Jesus gazing at the hungry crowd, saying to his anxious, doubting, screwed-up followers: You give them something to eat. So we did.

~ Sara Miles

My soul hunger for the living bread.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

~ Jazz Feylynn

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

~ Ann Voskamp

You must hunger for spiritual food.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ate our fill, but there was more left when we was done. 'It’ll be in the icebox if y’all want some more later on,' she told us. There weren’t no way I would have gone back and eat more. I knowed they was being extra nice to us right then, but if we didn’t act right, they would put us out. That’s how folks do.

~ Eddie Whitlock

If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.

~ Suzy Kassem

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

~ Ally Condie

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury, hunger of necessity is terrifying torture.

~ Mike Mullin

Transparent tubes divided Phil’s blood into shades of red, fading to straw colored plasma. I watched his fluid swirl past his shoulders and disappear into machines. He offered himself to blood banks all over the city, his plasma rushed to hospitals where it would circulate through other people’s bodies. The map of my love’s tapped arteries would look like a bloodshot eye over the city of Albuquerque. His blood bought us dinner. I dreamed he was my mother, and I nursed his arm. I wrote a poem about it, how I suckled his arm dry like a sore teat.

~ Jalina Mhyana

If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger

~ Sunday Adelaja

33. Satan will attempt to offer you whatever you hunger for, whether it be money, power, sex, or prestige. But Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matthew 5:6).

~ James C. Dobson

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

~ Amy Efaw

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you.

~ Muse

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.

~ Lance Conrad

I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.

~ Pat Schneider

Hunger does not come from body; it comes from mind. Once a person starts to feel hungry all the time, nothing satisfies him whatsoever. This hunger covers up all the aspects of life ... The only thing wrong in following your hunger blindly is that people never know when to stop and when to feel satisfied.

~ Gracia Hunter

With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana