Top 100 Starved Quotes
#1. I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
J.P. Donleavy
#2. They may have convinced you all these years that you are nothing, unworthy of love, but I am telling you you are, and I love you." His eyes flared a deep green color and he leaned in closer to her. "You are starved for it, Lady Graven, starved, just as much as I am.
Cat Porter
#3. The day I start hanging out with that bunch of half-starved mix-n-match sluts will be the day I crawl up my own ass and die!
Stephen King
#4. He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.
David Foster Wallace
#5. That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy - not ascetically starved and despised - it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go.
Ken Wilber
#6. This is why people get obsessed with festivals, or clubs, or drugs, or football, or other temporal approximations of togetherness; these distilled vials of the elixir are craved by our starved souls.
Russell Brand
#7. I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
Jeff Daniels
#8. Hardy had learned in a hard school, where the tests are given by savage Indians, by bitter cold, by hunger. These were tests where the result was not just a bad mark if one failed. The result was a starved or frozen body somewhere, forgotten in the wilderness.
Louis L'Amour
#9. She'd spent seven long years without so much as a hug, and she was starved for physical affection. She had known what it was like to be touched and kissed, and she had no idea how much she'd missed it until that very moment.
Julia Quinn
#10. I want to be a mystery to you,
untouchable,
a star all to myself
a galaxy away from your starved fingers.
Emily Palermo
#11. The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#13. I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
Ronnie Corbett
#14. Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?
Billy Graham
#15. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.
Scott Adams
#16. The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
#17. And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged ...
Andrzej Szczypiorski
#18. The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
Frances Beinecke
#19. A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step ...
George Washington
#20. She wasn't thin like the freak girls who puked and starved themselves into what they thought was Paris Hilton chic. ("That's hott." Yeah, okay, whatever, Paris.)
P.C. Cast
#21. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk.
George Orwell
#22. I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
Jude Law
#23. A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.
William Blake
#24. Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a
cage is still a cage,
Anne Bishop
#25. Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.
Mary Miller
#26. Emotions would be half starved if there were no candle-light.
Thomas Hardy
#27. If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.
Syed Arshad
#28. Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
Laurence Olivier
#29. The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full of hell
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#30. Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Richard Louv
#31. Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. "I'm
Brit Bennett
#32. We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
John Piper
#33. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
Kate Morton
#34. I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy ...
Laurie Halse Anderson
#35. There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
Michelle Tea
#36. I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
Ann Voskamp
#38. She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I'd ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.
Jay Crownover
#39. Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.
Aspen Matis
#40. I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.
Rafael Sabatini
#41. If he didn't want to be mauled by a sex-starved woman who hadn't gotten any skin in months, he'd better keep his hands to himself.
Jody Wallace
#42. You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
Cassandra Clare
#43. Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?
Paul Russell
#44. Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Elie Wiesel
#45. Something breaks under my boot, and I know before I look down what I'll see. Bones. Human skulls, femurs, ribs. The bones of otherthings as well, things that starved once the humans rotted away. Twisted spines, elongated jaws. Teeth.
Caitlin Kittredge
#46. O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Douglas William Jerrold
#47. How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.
Amanda Torroni
#48. More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#49. First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.
Virginia Woolf
#50. Does a pistol murder a man? Or is it the man who pulls the trigger? Can we blame a rabid dog who tears apart a child? Or should we blame the one who kicked and starved and tortured it?
Bec McMaster
#51. It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
Jack Nicholson
#52. I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
Gary Jennings
#53. The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes "does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live."6
Brigid Schulte
#54. If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.
Joseph Sobran
#55. When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
Kirstie Alley
#56. I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'
Miranda July
#57. I didn't realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness.
Suzanne Collins
#58. The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon
#59. A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#60. Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.
Bill Hybels
#61. The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
Nathan Myhrvold
#62. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.
Rumi
#63. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
Kate Morton
#64. Your topsoil's a disaster area - it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet.
Peter S. Beagle
#65. Nothing like running for our lives to make Cameron starved," Rob says, then winks at Cameron. "No, wait. You're always hungry.
Laura Kreitzer
#66. A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
Aberjhani
#67. The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
Chogyam Trungpa
#68. I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
Marjorie M. Liu
#69. It is the dark, hard, tobacco-starved, headachey, sour-stomached, middle of the day, a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them know it, many about now are already onto the second or third pint or highball glass, which produces a certain desperate aura here.
Thomas Pynchon
#70. A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark Twain
#72. It is disturbing how the emotion from a single event, frozen in time, can conquer you so completely. It gnaws at your innards like a starved coyote, always wanting more than you have to give.
T.H. Waters
#73. They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice
Thornton Wilder
#74. We spend all our time and energy pampering our bodies and minds, but if we ignore our souls, we will end up spiritually starved and malnourished.
Billy Graham
#75. Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment. And I suspect that some of the guesses made by our ancestors are partly responsible for the starved bodies and spirits we see everywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#76. However, she was horrified the following morning when she opened the Daily Mail at breakfast. The leading article was headed THE HUNS MUST PAY. The paper argued that food aid should be sent to Germany - only because "if Germany were starved to death she could not pay what she owes.
Ken Follett
#77. Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.
Cate Tiernan
#78. You taste like sex, Magdalena. And I'm a starved man.
Megan Mitcham
#79. Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding.
J.K. Rowling
#80. I have tried to fight the impulse, the attraction, but my defenses crumble every time I see him. Since my divorce from Hank I'm practically love-starved.
Martha Lemasters
#81. A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
George Santayana
#82. When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.
Nate Denver
#83. Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad.
Charles Bukowski
#84. I'm starved." -Juli
"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth
"Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki
Lynsay Sands
#85. He watched you like a man starved for the only thing that could fulfill his hunger."
My eyes popped out and my body flushed about a thousand shades of red. "Oh, wow ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#87. I felt the depth of my loss in the presence of emptiness, which was amplified when I allowed myself to be starved.
Truth Devour
#88. He tightened his hold on her hair and brought his mouth down and claimed hers in a kiss that seared her straight down to her toes. They kissed as though they were starved for the taste of each other's mouths, until they were breathless.
Natasha Blackthorne
#89. There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
John Darnielle
#90. One scrawny straggler, inching its way toward me like a tiger focused on prey. I must have looked incredibly savory, for it ignored the beaming lights blinding its searing red eyes and headed right toward me. For a half-starved beast, it was incredibly fast, its body looking bony and malnourished.
Alexia Purdy
#91. Instead of feeding the memories with resistance, I starved them with acceptance. I denied them the attention they demanded. I refused to give my abuser that kind of power over me. The monsters under my bed would be there by invitation only.
Dennis Randall
#92. It felt like he'd been starved for sunshine and had now been deprived the chance of standing in its warmth.
M. Leighton
#93. Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
L'Wren Scott
#94. Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie
#95. Only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
Alison Croggon
#96. Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.
Sue Bender
#97. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.
Andrew James Pritchard
#98. If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#99. Starved and tired enough he was: but he looked happier than when he set out. He had performed an act of duty; made an exertion; felt his own strength to do and deny, and was on better terms with himself.
Charlotte Bronte
#100. It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
Helen Reddy
