Quotes about Hunger

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.

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.