quotations about hunger
Hunger is a spiritual exercise to the devout, but a trial to others.
IBN MOUD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
WILLA CATHER
"The Burglar's Christmas,", Home Monthly, Dec. 1896
Our stomachs
Will make what's homely savoury.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
HELDER CAMARA
Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Spirituality of Bread
God never sendeth the mouth but he sendeth meat.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
A hungry man is an angry man.
AZIZ DWEIK
Time Magazine, Apr. 10, 2006
When we understand hunger in its full immediacy, we are grasped by inescapable truth: hunger is a threat. Hunger is a political threat because the existence of the hungry is a stinging indictment against the political status quo. Hunger is a social threat because the hungry, having little to lose, are likely to fight by whatever means necessary to disrupt the social order. Hunger is a personal threat because to unflinchingly perceive the realities of hunger is to confront one's own inhumanity.
DAVID L. L. SHIELDS
"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER
The Odyssey
Hunger is a bunk, a bed frame, when one hungry person is watching the others. But that is deceptive, I can sense in myself that hunger is climbing into us. We are the frame for the hunger. All of us eat with closed eyes. We feed the hunger all night long. We fatten him up, for the shovel. I eat a short sleep, then wake up and eat the next short sleep. One dream is like the next, each involves eating. Our compulsion to eat finds a merciful outlet in our dreams, though that, too, is a torment.
HERTA MÜLLER
The Hunger Angel
One who could hunger could starve.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Lilith's Brood
A hungry bear dances badly.
GERMAN PROVERB
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The Poisonwood Bible
The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
BONO
2004 PENN Address
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A hungry dog does not fear the stick.
ITALIAN PROVERB
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.
STEPHEN KING
Duma Key
Despite the overt powerlessness of the hungry, hunger itself is a profound and omnipresent threat. And so hunger must be domesticated. For the status quo--political, social, and personal--to remain, hunger must be tamed.
DAVID L. L. SHIELDS
"Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice", The Color of Hunger
A light belly, heavy heart.
GERMAN PROVERB