"Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them."
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"Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."
"Hunger is the best sauce."
"Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?"
"Hunger is the best pickle."
"The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
"Hunger's a great spur."
"I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
"My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once."
"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time."
"A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little."
"We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness."
"He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by."
"In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me."
"Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body."
"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
"Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection."
"There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat."
"There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness."
"Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease."