Appetite For Life Quotes

• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

  Lord Byron

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Solitude

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• I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Mean, Being In Love, Thinking

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• I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Phones, Whole Life, Rings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Reality, Illusion

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). “The Enduring Quest: A Search for a Philosophy of Life”

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• Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Loss, Despair, Lessons

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

  Catherine Wilson

  Arguing, Sometimes, Gamble

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

  William Plomer

  Honesty, Effectiveness, Giving

  Robert Francis Kilvert, William Plomer (1969). “Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]”, Jonathan Cape

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• Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

  Ben Okri

  Country, Character, Ghetto

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Mind, Important

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