Hunger Quotes - Page 13

• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

  Max Stirner

  Cheer, Air, Order

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• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

  Hari Kunzru

  Sex, Track, Long

  "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Irony, Poor

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• Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Wind, Suffering, Trying

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• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, Perfect, Joy

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• In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

  Alexandre Kojeve

  Moving, Men, Desire

  Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.4, Cornell University Press

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Childhood

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.133, Anchor

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• Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

  Jeet Thayil

  Cutting, Mind, Saint

  "Narcopolis". Book by Jeet Thayil, 2012.

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• My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Careers, World, Facts

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• The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  People, Needs, Roles

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• Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

  John Ortberg

  Dream, Soul, Reason

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.106, Harper Collins

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• I am not a person to say the words out loud
  I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page:
  know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other
  than my tongue
  the quiet love
  the silent rage.

  Keri Hulme

  Thinking, Silence, Pages

  Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Here I Am

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, He Man, Live By

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.139

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• Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Vision, World, Eating

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage

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• The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

  James Burnham

  Hunger And Poverty, Egalitarianism, Economic

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• Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Gold, May

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• No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Justice, Humanity

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

  Norman Borlaug

  Fighting, Agency, Population Problem

  Norman Borlaug's acceptance speech for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1970.

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• In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that  we don't need genetically modified organisms.

  Jacques Diouf

  Taken, Needs, World

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• Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

  Dan O'Neill

  Unique, People, Needs

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• Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Nice, Needs, Well Being

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