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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary. By Caroline Knapp Form Hunger Persists Longing Routed

It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty to be starving and afraid of running out of money as I wandered from Brussels to Burma and everywhere in between for months on end, that I later came to see it as a part of my training as a cook. I came to see hunger as being as important a part of a stage as knife skills. Because so much starving on that trip led to such an enormous amount of time fantasizing about food, each craving became fanatically particular. Hunger was not general, ever, for just something, anything, to eat. My hunger grew so specific I could name every corner and fold of it. Salty, warm, brothy, starchy, fatty, sweet, clean and crunchy, crisp and water, and so on. By Gabrielle Hamilton Brussels Burma Part End Cook

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. By Colin Farrell World Tsunami Week Rips Poor

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism. By Betty Friedan Extremely Dangerously Hungry Interest Man

Hunger is the best seasoning. By Anthony Ryan Hunger Seasoning

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive. By Margaret Atwood Hunger Alive

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. By C.s. Lewis Hunger Long Unsatisfied Met Food

There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life. By Kelley Armstrong Life Months Hunger Driving Force

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? By Kahlil Gibran Thirst Evil Good Tortured Hunger

Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute. By Ruth Reichl Hunger Discovered Mind Appetites Matter

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. By Richard Wright Hunger Played Bedside Staring Gauntly

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume. By Nenia Campbell Consume Hunger Earnest

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hungernot abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. By Arthur Conan Doyle Food Great Sorrow Joy Bring

Hunger never being fed makes cracks in the brain. By The Paper Doll Hunger Brain Fed Makes Cracks

Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving. By Nayyirah Waheed Desire Starving Kind Thing Thateats

The most awful hunger is the type that is satisfied too soon, before it moves you, before you are moved by it, before it becomes protracted and superior, a motivating business, making you honorable, graceful, clever - a hunter. By Hilary Thayer Hamann Graceful Clever Superior Business Making

The accursed hunger for gold. By Virgil Gold Accursed Hunger

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. By Willa Cather Hunger Introspection Powerful Incentive

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. By Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann Hunger Anger Mother Impatience

Not having enough to eat paralyzes you and keeps you living hour by hour instead of thinking about what you would like to accomplish in a day, week, month, or year. Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But By Saroo Brierley Week Month Hour Day Year

It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think. By Mercedes Lackey Books Hunger Eat Read

Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of [God]. By Misty Edwards God Hunger Escort Deeper Things

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. By Lyndon B. Johnson Hunger Unused Worst

You must hunger for spiritual food. By Lailah Gifty Akita Food Hunger Spiritual

I suspect that hunger was my mother. By Plautus Mother Suspect Hunger

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. By Barbara Kingsolver Hunger Shallow Daily Belly Body

Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food. By Amanda Comer Food Hunger Heart Stronger

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation. By Jackie Morse Kessler Thou Hunger Art Make Starvation

Hunger steals the memory By Louise Erdrich Hunger Memory Steals

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man. By Meridel Le Sueur Bound Man Hungers Beautiful Thing

Hunger makes thief of any man. By Pearl S. Buck Hunger Man Makes Thief

I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears. By Geneen Roth Hunger Hard Named Big Church

There is no greater humiliation than hunger. By Vaddey Ratner Hunger Greater Humiliation

Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. By Hunter S. Thompson Hungry Beasts People Cunning Wild

My hunger is always there. By Usain Bolt Hunger

Hunger makes a thief of any man. By Pearl S. Buck Hunger Man Makes Thief

A man cannot understand hunger, until he has swum in the depths of hunger By David Rea Hunger Man Understand Swum Depths

Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not, By Geneen Roth Love Hungry

It wasn't just hunger[ ... ] Hunger wasn't comfortable, but it was familiar and it was nothing to fear. This was a thirst, like his whole body was parched, drying up, about to crumple. He was dying of thirst on the shores of the world's biggest lake.None of it was for him. To him, that lake was an ocean. It was salt sea that if he drank would make him thirstier and thirstier until he went mad and died. By Brent Weeks Hunger Comfortable Fear Familiar Thirst

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable. By Carew Papritz Hunger Hungeryou Hungry Beauty Love

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience. By Margaret Atwood Hunger Conscience Powerful Reorganizer

Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body. By M.f.k. Fisher Hunger Guts Problem Belly Body

Appetite comes with eating. By Francois Rabelais Appetite Eating

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. By Leo Buscaglia Table Hunger Sit Satisfying Meal

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. By Ambrose Bierce Appetite Providence Question Instinct Thoughtfully

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation. By Cherrie Moraga Starving Starvation Physically Luxury Realize

To my own demise, I rarely ask why I'm hungry because I'm focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty. By Craig D. Lounsbrough Demise Fed Rarely Hungry Focusing

The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons By Bernard Kelvin Clive Reasons Tragedy Age Hungry Wrong

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for. By Frances Moore Lappe Power Grown Hunger Phenomenon Peoplemade

Hunger is good discipline. By Ernest Hemingway, Hunger Discipline Good

Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream. By Dorothy Allison Food Hunger Restless Makes Magical

Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem. By Fulton J. Sheen Problem Hunger Economic Moral Spiritual

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? By George Eliot Beauty Oppression Hunger Heart Sickens

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. By Joseph Addison Hunger Kind Violent Appetites Creatures

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed. By Jean-Baptiste Say Fact Countries Part Melancholy Undoubted

The same hunger sends us to prayer and sugar and sweetener and text: the rush of comfort that comes from quick taste, the body suddenly filled with a sensation beyond itself - foreign and seductive. Sentimentality By Leslie Jamison Text Taste Foreign Seductive Hunger

Hunger is the most effective disease. By Pol Pot Hunger Disease Effective

Hunger is my crime. By Sherman Alexie Hunger Crime

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. By Thomas Hobbes Appetite Despair Attaining Hope Opinion

The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing. By Caryll Houselander Food Things Astonishing Emotions Roused

Polluting his brain with a hunger so base that it would have made him vomit had he had any possession of his own body. The hunger was more than a desire for food, for sex or for power. The hunger was a vacuum, an endless vortex that consumed every thought, every impulse of who and what he was. He tried to scream but it wouldn't let him. By William C. Dietz Hunger Polluting Body Brain Base

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. By Mary Wollstonecraft Vacant Appetites Rule Mind

Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind. By Wendy Mass Contrary Belief Hunger Fact Sharpen

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming. By Stephen Crane Coming Frightfully Hungry Learn Meals

The more hunger, the greater the desires, like those of men in prison, wild and haunting. So we had here a perfect world in which to grow the flower of eroticism. Of course, if you get too hungry, too continuously, you become a bum, a tramp. By Anais Nin Hunger Desires Prison Wild Haunting

Love comes with hunger. By Diogenes Love Hunger

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. By Ninon De L'enclos Love Starvation Indigestion Dies

To hunger is to be alive and to hope. By Crescent Dragonwagon Hope Hunger Alive

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative. By Yann Martel Imperative Thirst Hunger Greater

There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans ... hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate ... By Swoosie Kurtz Americans Hunger Hidden Epidemic Threatening

It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness... By Todd Field Hunger Unhappiness Alternative Refusal Accept

From abundance springs satiety. By Livy Satiety Abundance Springs

Memory is hunger. By Ernest Hemingway, Memory Hunger

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger. By Alcuin Hunger Sweet Makes Bitter Things

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. By Jules Verne State Man Constituted Health Purely

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. By Dean Koontz Gentleness Humility Weaknesses Human Appetites

God created hunger for our growth. By Michael Bassey Johnson God Growth Created Hunger

...grief.If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough. By Ai Griefif Eat

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest. By Kim Chernin Circumstances Literal Purposes Hunger Starvation

That which could hunger, could starve. By Octavia E. Butler Hunger Starve

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? By Rosalind Russell Starvation Beauty Deprivation

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated. By Gary Shteyngart Hungry Born Ravenous World Satiated

Hunger, after all, is a more potent seasoning than salt. By Tessa Dare Hunger Salt Potent Seasoning

You are thirst and thirst is all I know By Benjamin Alire Saenz Thirst

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning By Menachem Mendel Schneerson Anxiety Nourishment Emptiness Yearning Soul

To be hungry must be awful. By Dick Van Patten Awful Hungry

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. By Herta Muller Hunger Chronic Make Sick Feel

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand. By Kathy Freston Hunger Hand Selfcontrol

Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence and Death are still charging over the earth. Hunger is a silent visitor who comes like a shadow. He sits besides every anxious mother three times each day. He brings not alone suffering and sorrow, but fear and terror. He carriers disorder and the paralysis of government, and even its downfall. He is more destructive than armies, not only in human life but in morals. All of the values of right living melt before his invasions, and every gain of civilisation crumbles. By Herbert Hoover Apocalypse Horsemen War Named Famine

desire is the sugar in human food. By David Foster Wallace Desire Food Sugar Human

But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors. By Katherine Applegate Hunger Food Colors Shapes

Your hunger blurs your ability, By R.a. Salvatore Ability Hunger Blurs

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. By Ovid Love Boredom Fed Fat Turns

We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated. By Bruce Davison America Stick Heads Sand Issue

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle. By Sara Miles Miracle Food Hunger Expressed Feeding

Let him who is struggling against the power of appetite look to the Saviour in the wilderness of temptation. See Him in His agony upon the cross, as He exclaimed, "I thirst." He has endured all that it is possible for us to bear. His victory is ours. By Ellen G. White Saviour Temptation Struggling Power Appetite

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial. By Terry Tempest Williams Unspoken Hunger Quelled Things Denial

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. By Bertrand Russell Relation Food Zest Life Hunger

Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was the thing I had recognised here: appetite. I recognised it precisely because, in a context like this, it was so unfamiliar. It had forced me to rule out everything else. And there was a second reason for my recognition, which because unprecedented was not recognition at all, but astounding discovery: Martha's face told me. I saw appetite there ... By Susan Choi Craves Embellishment Appetite Cerebral Recognised

A hungry stomach cannot hear. By Jean De La Fontaine Hear Hungry Stomach