Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

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

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Hunger is never delicate.

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.

Hunger allows no choice.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

To be hungry must be awful.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

I left home because I was hungry.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I am dying of hunger.

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

Hunger's a great spur.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

There’s a difference between fasting for a week and starving for a week.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

Hunger is the teacher of many.