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Quotes about Hunger

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
— George Eliot
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
— Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
— Victor Hugo
If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.
— Victor Hugo
and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words
— Victor Hugo
Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
— Victor Hugo
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
— Victor Hugo
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
— Nadine Gordimer
Please, sir, I want some more.
— Charles Dickens
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.
— Shane Claiborne