Virgil Quotes

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

No one has starved.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

Hunger allows no choice.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

To be hungry must be awful.

Hunger is the best pickle.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

A hungry man is an angry man

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

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.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

I left home because I was hungry.