#hunger

Because...because...she came here with me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #peeta-mellark #the-hunger-games #love

In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead to the belief that a biological response, more food, will solve the problem. ↗

— Sharman Apt Russell

#hunger #politics #food

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much. ↗

— Earle Gray

#food #hunger #malnutrition #obesity #food

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #hunger #food

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#food

I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you? I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’ and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’ Nothing. ↗

— Jan Neruda

#hunger #food

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) ↗

— Min Jin Lee

#hunger #women #food

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hunger #thirst #yearning #freedom

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#meditation #self-help #soul #spiritual-hunger #spirituality

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#hunger #paris #starving #art