Quotes about Hunger

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive, continue to repeat its bedrock prayer: I am, I am. I am, still.

But also I'm hungry. This is monstrous, but nevertheless it's true. Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive, continue to repeat its bedrock prayer: I am, I am. I am, still. I want to go to bed, make love, right now. I think of the word relish. I could eat a horse.

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all His bairns, and as much wine in His cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on; for there is meat in hunger for Christ: go never from Him, but fash6 Him (who yet is pleased with the importunity of hungry souls) with a dishful of hungry desires, till He fill you; and if He delay yet come not ye away, albeit7 ye should fall a-swoon at His feet.