#hunger

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#bread #difficult #hunger #love is #more

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #peeta #games

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#poor #pride #rich #swell #up

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ↗

— Herta Müller

#death-and-dying #gulag #hunger #starvation #will-to-live

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #ecstasy #hunger #like #nothing

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#better #better ways #constantly #diversion #hunger

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#gut #hunger #reigns #strength #strut

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#bear #become #bigger #boy #empty

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#ease #everywhere #exists #flesh #honour

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#changes #eating #habit #hunger #neither