Hungered Quotes

#1. He walked to Brooks's, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But
even at his club, surrounded by all the trappings of the honorable British gentleman, he still longed for the
forbidden fruit; he still hungered for the hot, sweet kisses of an Italian girl.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#2. Pinole was a favorite treat of the Apache, and too many knew how they hungered for the sweet. By keeping the Indians on short rations, they were made vulnerable to attacks like this one, when white men came to the reservations

Raine Cantrell

#3. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.

Laurie R. King

#4. Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. As much as I hungered to learn more about my past, I was afraid of learning other things too
mostly about death and despair, and dark corners of the globe. I prayed that those memories wouldn't come back to me, because I felt in my bones that some things were too frightening to remember.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#6. He was explicit sex, personified.
I was hungered curiosity, caged.
And as long as I held onto the key, my heart would remain unscathed.

K.M. Golland

#7. The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Richard Wright

#8. Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible.

Wilbur Smith

#9. I hear, "Yes,
Let us more education invest!"
Whilst destitute,
Outside their gates doth rest,
Women, children, and men,
Poor and a hungered!
Odd that colleges fill,
Yet mercy is numbered.

Kari L. Greenaway

#10. A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore.

James Joyce

#11. It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of pure elation granted to those who had the imagination to know what to look for and how to find it.

Pat Conroy

#12. When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. It was a sort of infinite monster, tossing its million heads and frothing at its million mouths as it hungered to devour the city," he wrote. "I stood there and heard the monster's growl - his cry for blood - and looked into the black terror of his murderous frown.

Leigh Jones

#14. He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even more intimate, someplace where heart and soul melded into a yearning so strong, that she wanted to weep from it.

Dorien Kelly

#15. Everything he'd learned said it wasn't normal to hunger for a human. And yet, with a near brutal intensity, he hungered for this one.

Lucian Bane

#16. I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Anne Lamott

#17. I was tired of acting free when I was not, tired of acting strong when I was in fact weak. I hungered more for freedom than I cared for the approval of those around me. I had already discovered that their approval could never set me free.

Anonymous

#18. Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.

Carl Sagan

#19. I fancy that the spirit of old Tom Hossie, wise with age and vastly weary of the labor and troublous delights of life, hungered and thirsted for death.

Jack Williamson

#20. Always my soul hungered for less than it had

T.E. Lawrence

#21. I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Patti Smith

#22. With my hands on the keys, I realized how much I had liked music - and how much I hungered for it. To be able to perform music for yourself is wonderful thing.

Haruki Murakami

#23. I swear, as God is my witness, I've hungered for no one as much as I hunger for you.

Sandy Loyd

#24. She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.

Holly Black

#25. My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could feel the ripple of need on the pads of my fingertips, on the palms of my hands, on the skin of my back, at the base of my cock, inside my ass
I wanted the taste of you in my mouth.

Julio Alexi Genao

#26. My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.

Rita Mae Brown

#27. All grief would slip away and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.

Michael D. O'Brien

#28. The ferocity of her passion was what he'd been waiting for night after torturous night. He wanted her to hunger the way he hungered. To need like he needed.

Melissa Cutler

#29. Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

May Sarton

#30. Pleasure itself is not a vice

Samuel Johnson

#31. I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.

Barack Obama

#32. Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying."
"I never lie," I lie.

Holly Black

#33. We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy

Tom Izzo

#34. Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

Robert Altman

#35. Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

#36. The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#37. We were all changing. We didn't have to be changed, to be re-educated, to be reformed. Thad been done, already.

Mbella Sonne Dipoko

#38. I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

Susan Lucci

#39. I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

Radha Mitchell

#40. You don't respect my religion. I don't respect your outfit.

Scott Disick