Starvation Quotes
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No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.
— Joe Calzaghe
With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
— Edward R. Murrow
Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
— Pearl S. Buck
God, I'm hungry. Have you tried the 5:2 diet? This is my fast day. I am dying of starvation.
— Liane Moriarty
punishment was withholding food. Starvation was the way the regime preferred to eliminate its opponents. It
— Barbara Demick
Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.
— Jackie Morse Kessler
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
— Barbara Demick
in many societies more people are in danger of dying from obesity than from starvation.
— Yuval Noah Harari
That bowl of soup - it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you consume more food in one meal than a village of people eat in a day something is wrong
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus
— Ryan Hackney
Always make time to eat. Always. There's enough starving children in the world without adding to their number
— Diane Samuels
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
— Cherrie Moraga
For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
— George Bernard Shaw
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
(As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)
— Mary Roach
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
— Walter Duranty
I died last night. Seventy years too young.
— Colin Thompson
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
— Clive James
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
— Stevie Wonder
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
— Mark Twain
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
— Vladimir Lenin
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
— Terry Pratchett
Death by starvation is slow.
— Mary Hunter Austin
Children are better to starve than forced into prostitution.
— M. T. Panchal
War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. — David Gemmell
Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.
— Oscar Wilde
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.
— David Packard
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
— Rosalind Russell
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you're on a full tummy.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days ... spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
— Billy Graham
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
— Denis Hayes
Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
— Tadeusz Borowski
Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village.
— Richelle Mead
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
— Lewis Mumford
Some of the things that beat the shit out of you ... can beat the bullshit out of you too.
— Henry V. O'Neil
First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.
— Virginia Woolf
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
— Raoul Vaneigem
The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.
— Cormac McCarthy
Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett
— David Grann
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.
— David B. Lentz
Some kid asked what a dilemma is. And I replied: When a starving man has to choose between a plate of food, and, a roll of toilet paper.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
she was once rich and now was not. Perhaps to someone raised in luxury that was like starvation
— Mark Lawrence
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
— Laura Miller
Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods ... a few seconds after he took Viagra.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.
— Claude Monet
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
— Haniel Long
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
— Ernst Toller
For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.
— Rick Yancey
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
— Bertrand Russell
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
— Anthony Liccione
Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.
— Raoul Vaneigem
Desire is the kind of thing thateats you
and
leaves you starving. — Nayyirah Waheed
The end of starvation is quite delicious.
— Lisa Renee Jones
Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.
— Obafemi Awolowo
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
— William D. Hoard
Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
— Gautama Buddha
Curnow had once remarked that Dr. Chandra had the sort of physique that could only be achieved by centuries of starvation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
More organizations die of indigestion than starvation
— David Packard
To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
— Erich Fromm
I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.
— Nicole Williams
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
— Roger McGough
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
— James Nachtwey
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
— George Orwell
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation.
— Jim Hinckley
another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation - from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.
— Richard Rhodes
There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.
— Walter Duranty
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
— Michael Redhill
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
— Francis Alexander Durivage