a hunger QUOTES

1 " The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. "

― Mother Teresa , A Simple Path

2 " Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? "

― Sidney Sheldon , Bloodline

3 " There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. "

― Philip Pullman

4 " Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. "

5 " Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you. "

― , The Mountain of Ignorance

6 " It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous "

― Agona Apell , The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

7 " There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. "

― Ian McEwan , Saturday

8 " People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. "

― Sherry K. White

9 " Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us. "

― , Perfumes: The Guide

10 " You know what she's made of." " Yeah, good stock, good breeding, a hard head and a hunger to win." She flashed him a smile as they approached the kitchen door. " I've been told that describes me. I'm half Irish, Brian, I was born stubborn." " No arguing with that. A person might make the world a calmer place for others by being passive, but you don't get very far in it yourself, do you?" " Look at that. We have a foundation of agreement. Now tell me you like spaghetti and meatballs." " It happens to be a favorite of mine." " That's handy. Mine, too. And I heard a rumor that's what's for dinner." She reached for the doorknob, then caught him off guard by brushing a light kiss over his lips. " And since we'll be joining my parents, it would probably be best if you didn't imagine me naked for the next couple of hours." She sailed in ahead of him, leaving Brian helplessly and utterly aroused. "

11 " The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside. "

― J.D. Lakey , Black Bead (Black Bead Chronicles #1)

12 " Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need
for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. "

― Aberjhani , Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

13 " There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light. "

― Carsten Jensen , We, the Drowned

14 " The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. "

15 " God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new. "

16 " One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes the look of the world in a strangeness, and the more one stares blankly at the world, the stranger it looks, the more hideously frightening it seems. There is then born in one a wild, hot wish to project out upon the alien world the world that one is seeking. This wish is a hunger for power, to be in command of one's self. "

― Richard Wright , The Outsider

17 " Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire. "

― Kij Johnson

18 " They all had darkened eyes, eyes that seemed to have a hunger behind them. Borne out of the private convulsions only secret passions can provoke. "

― Guy Mankowski , How I Left the National Grid: A post-punk novel

19 " We have too much technological
progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent
still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better.
The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for
greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the
soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for
caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the
officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also
concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they
seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the
effort. I find that magnificent. "

― Henri Charrière , Papillon

20 " To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am. "

― O.R. Melling

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