quotations about hunger
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
RICHARD WRIGHT
Black Boy
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
RONALD REAGAN
speech, "A Time for Choosing", October 27, 1964
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
My more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound, its eyes hungry ... hungry for the moon.
ALAN MOORE
Swamp Thing #40
Hunger teachesh many things.
LABERIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda