Hunger Quotes

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

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

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

Passion for God is not youth thing. It is a hunger thing.

But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

I still have the same hunger like I did 20 years ago but it's a different sort of reflection when you lose. It doesn't hurt you as much because I feel like I've had a good career.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

I was like, 'Whoa, I'm auditioning for 'Hunger Games?'' That's like my dream come true. That's like a Trekkie auditioning for 'Star Trek.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Hunger steals the memory

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all.

The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.