Hunger Quotes

“Do you want-?' he starts, but she is already pushing up her dress.

'I want,' she says. 'That's my problem. I want and I want and I want.'

'What do you want?' he asks, voice soft.

'Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far.'

He shudders at her words, shaking his head against them.

She goes on, whispering against his skin. 'You cannot understand. I am a chasm that will never be full. I am hunger. I am need. I cannot be sated. IF you try, I will swallow you up. I will take all of you and want more. I will use you. I will drain you until you are nothing more than a husk.'

'Use me, then,' he whispers, mouth on her throat.

Then her lips are against his, and there is no more talking for a long time.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the loop. If I am hungry and I eat and I remain hungry, hunger becomes rage. But to deny fulfillment makes sense of the hunger – I don’t eat, so I am hungry.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“A fire's hunger only ends in death.”
― James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Vol. 3: The Butcher's Return

“Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?”
― Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

“Sate my hunger with your flesh or sate my hunger with your blood.”
― Adrian Blue, Taken by the Minotaur

“I want more, I said, putting a hand to my stomach, which rides higher than most know. Closer to the heart. I want the jiang bing that vendor will make when she runs out of nut butter. I don't think she's arrogant. I think she's right. I want to sample jian bing from every cart in Beijing, and I want to taste what those kids are eating at home, what they don't teach in cookbooks at Le Cordon Bleu. There's so much out there--- Helplessly, I said, I haven't even told you how much I love foods wrapped in other foods.
Then tell me.
I tried. I tried. Banh xeo in Hanoi, I said, and duck folded in the translucent bing of northern China. I spoke of tacos in Mexico City: suadero, al pastor, gringas. South Indian dosas as long as my arm, thinner than a rib of a feather. Oh, Aida, I said when I fumbled the names of the chutneys. How can I know all I've ever want? Something will get left out. I was wrong about cilantro.
Tlayudas, she said stubbornly, as if she hadn't heard. Blini. Crêpes.
They're basically French jian bing, I said with a strangled laugh.
Pita sandwiches.
Pickle roll-ups.
Calzone.
Bossam! I yelled, and the dogs barked and the children cheered and the streets of old Milan rang with the imported memory of pork kissed by brine, earthy with Korean bean paste, safe in its bed of red leaf lettuce.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“Dirt poor, my mother describes it, though land is more valuable
than almost anything. America and its incongruent abundance:
fields of corn and the hungry in the streets. The cattle well fed.”
― Ruth Awad

“She didn't want food at all but rather, the feeling of emotional fullness, a hunger that could only be satiated by home, family, and familiarity.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“A fire's hunger only ends in death.”
― Aaron Slaughter

“Hunger neglects pride the way fire neglects the cries of what it burns.”
― Ocean Vuong, Burnings

“Knowing Brahma is like eating food to satiate hunger. Enjoying Brahma is like relishing the taste of the food while satisfying hunger.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“All beings experience hunger, that persistent reminder of mortality. The blooming hollow inside all, which affirms that only by taking from without and devouring within can we extend our coil. Hunger is universal for those who are destined to die. As they feed, they pay the incremental bribes that forestall its coming.”
― Ian St. Martin, Lucius: The Faultless Blade

“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“Some mornings we wake, our stomachs empty, our stomachs angry, but never do we look to the ground beneath our feet with longing in our mouths. We chew on our pride. The dirt we do not eat.”
― Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“To prevent economic breakdown and to repress popular discontent, the governments of hungry countries will be tempted to enforce ever-stricter controls. Furthermore, chronic undernourishment reduces physical energy and disturbs the mind. Hunger and self-government are incompatible.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“A stomach, used to being only half filled, becomes complacent; if it starts getting enough, it soon leads to a loud mouth.”
― R. N. Prasher

“There are always humbugs hungry for ink. It is the nature and bane of paranormal research. If we throw out all evidence for the sake of a few charlatans, the world would be a poorer place, and nothing would be solved.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“And he said...

...hunger will drive man to the bakery in life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“With your smiles, time turns back to the past,
hunger for you I’ve, that will always last,
yet with me already you are, in the heart,
no one else of which can be a part…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“When you ask for bread, they give you hot lead.”
― Kesewa John, Black British History: New Perspectives

“Death is a skipped meal compared to this.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“An energy Lewis did not understand wanted to break through him. He wanted to kill a living fleshy thing. He wanted to sink his new sharp teeth into the sandbar shark, not because he was angry about any aspect of his circumstances but because he had suddenly become very, very hungry.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“An incessant desire for fish became louder than all the things Lewis treasured: the heartbeat of language, the idea of living in a tree, the universal within the poetic, and his soft way of loving her.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Misery wreaks havoc. The yawning gap between this place and the rest of the country is unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced it. Boko Haram recruits them like child's play because the sect at least offers a tangible, immediate solution. As shocking as we might find it, their message appeals to some. Dying for God is more thrilling than dying of hunger, humiliation, or because the neighbourhood dispensary has run out of antibiotics. Maybe one day someone will study just how personally distressed one must be to weaponise faith against one's own people, but that is not my job.”
― Hemley Boum, Days Come and Go

“You can't negotiate peace treaties with travel brochures, just like we can't solve world hunger with cooking shows!”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“Frederick searched the filthy street gutters of Baltimore for scattered and discarded pages of the Bible. Once found he would meticulously wash, dry, and read them.”
― D. H. Dilbeck

“There is no denying the fact that we humans are a voracious bunch of animals. Its almost as if our insatiable appetite is trying to fill a bottom less belly carved out by the past hungers our ancestors experienced. That’s why the most gluttonous survived. We are also a fickle and forgetful species. There’s one thing, though, we’ve never been able to forgive or forget, and that’s hunger. Even if we tried to forget, it wasn’t long before another famine came along to retell a very old story. Which is why we should all be excused for our rapaciousness -its literally been hardwired into our DNA.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“There is no denying the fact that we humans are a voracious bunch of animals. Its almost as if our insatiable appetite is trying to fill a bottomless belly carved out by the past hungers our ancestors experienced. That’s why the most gluttonous survived. We are also a fickle and forgetful species. There’s one thing, though, we’ve never been able to forgive or forget, and that’s hunger. Even if we tried to forget, it wasn’t long before another famine came along to retell a very old story. Which is why we should all be excused for our rapaciousness -its literally been hardwired into our DNA.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“It's easy to be afraid right now,
but doing things that scare you
makes you stronger,
makes fear less of an obstacle,
allows us to find ways
to dance in that liminal space--
that contradictory co-existing reality--
of
afraid not afraid.

We need to keep doing things that really scare us,
to remind ourselves that it is just a thing,
what we call fear--
and that as much as there are real things to fear,
that thing itself is the only thing that can paralyze us.

Love, passion, hunger, desire,
lead us forward to dance with our fear
so we can do it, yes,
and also so we learn that we can do it again and again,
and live with the failures--
learn from the failures--
when our fears are realized (another topic entirely).

Take heart.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry

when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting.”
― Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World