Quotes about Hunger

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is.

Life Stories: Why hunger for these? One, it fits a hunger. Maybe it is more like bossiness. Maybe we just want to be in charge of the life, no matter who lived it...

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.