Top 100 Starved Quotes
#1. I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
Anne Lamott
#2. He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.
Maya Banks
#3. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#5. For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole
#6. Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
Franz Grillparzer
#7. I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.
Joe Hill
#8. A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum.
Markus Zusak
#9. Sloane motioned for him to follow and Dex did, happily, his eyes glued to Sloane's ass. Sweet Aunt Jemima, what he wouldn't give to have a piece of that tasty - "You hungry?" "Starved," Dex muttered, clearing his throat and tearing his gaze away.
Charlie Cochet
#10. We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#11. It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.
Christopher Poindexter
#12. Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'
Brendon Urie
#14. I nod and smile and smile and nod, and when she turns away, I form a gun with my hand, place it to my temple, and pull the trigger. This girl is starved for attention. It's amazing to me when people are totally unaware of how bad they are at socializing.
Victoria Scott
#15. I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
Lauren Oliver
#16. Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.
Pete Egoscue
#17. The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
Alan Furst
#18. What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
Iris Murdoch
#19. I might have been chained, starved, and beaten, yet that monster couldn't totally crush my spirit. Over and over I chose to get back up and keep going.
Michelle Knight
#20. You read the stories about horses being starved at Santa Anita, but a horse can't starve at Santa Anita! I mean, there's just bags of carrots all over the place; food is everywhere. They don't starve any horses!
Kevin Dunn
#21. When the archeologists find this place they'll destroy history. Mankind will attempt to bury this information but we will ensure there is a leak. Intel this valuable makes insignificant fame starved humans grand masters of legend.Secrets are best retold to hungry ears.
Poppet
#22. If you hated me, if you were covered with sores like a leper, if you ran away with another woman or starved me or beat me - how absurd this sounds - I'd still want you, I'd still love you. I KNOW, my darling.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. We were alone and starved for love. Kids that lived in a world full of hate.
Masashi Kishimoto
#24. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
Sayo Masuda
#25. If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love - yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This
Erich Fromm
#27. For, however old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection.
Charlotte Bronte
#28. This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.
Peter Matthiessen
#29. Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#30. So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
Marc Andreessen
#31. If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister and hiccuping and nothingness when you were abscent
Hilda Hilst
#33. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
Marion G. Romney
#34. Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier
it
didn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as the
next man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.
Charles Bukowski
#35. A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.
Erich Maria Remarque
#36. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.
Anonymous
#37. Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That's why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.
Sharon Salzberg
#38. I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.
Adam Rapp
#39. Good morning, Amelia" greeted Rick as he walked into the room the next morning. "I'm starved. For some reason, I woke up craving strawberries.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#40. Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
Thomas Beecham
#41. I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.
Anzia Yezierska
#42. So much adrenaline, emotion and futility hung in the air, throttling our bones, stirring our blood, making us starved, wild animals. Death made sex feel much more alive.
Karina Halle
#43. When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
Wes Montgomery
#44. If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly have starved to death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#45. Western people are a ritually starved people, and in this are different than most of human history.
Richard Rohr
#46. The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related - yet.
Timothy Egan
#47. When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself ... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.
Jane Kaczmarek
#48. I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.
John Cage
#49. I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven't had the right kind of love in their lives.
Joyce Meyer
#50. If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.
Erma Bombeck
#51. I sat still as stone with my fingers aching. I wanted to play, not listen. Want isn't strong enough a word. I was hungry for it, starved. I'm not proud of the fact that I thought about stealing his lute and leaving in the dark of the night.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.
David Baldacci
#53. Since pursuing my dreams, I've starved, I've lived and I've starved.
Heather Wolf
#54. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes
Kate Morton
#55. Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.
Vir Das
#56. I can feel the grip of lost lives beneath me, starved hearts hoping to escape their shadowy fates.
Ky Grabowski
#57. All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
Penelope Lively
#58. In the midst of the battle between rebellion and surrender Bantry was suddenly uncertain what Flynn was starved for. The sensuality of a man's kiss? Or the rich, iron taste of blood?
Mel Keegan
#59. Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.
Joan Collins
#60. People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
Ben Carson
#61. It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#62. Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. I stole you, among others, from the streets of God's birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and starved you and your companion. To top it off, I am in the process of selling your life to the highest bidder. Why would you trust me?
V.S. Carnes
#64. I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.
Frank Leslie
#65. Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
Wes Montgomery
#66. I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death.
I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.
Hal Turner
#67. I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ...
Frances Hardinge
#68. A groan rumbled through him as he kissed me like an oxygen-starved man and I was his air.
Ashlan Thomas
#69. Maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.
Suzanne Collins
#70. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Benjamin Franklin
#71. To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.
Max Lucado
#72. Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.
Lupita Nyong'o
#73. The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.
Betty Smith
#74. I want to kiss you," I tell her. I want to so bad. I can almost taste her. Her breath on my lips isn't enough anymore. If anything, it makes me feel more deprived. More starved.- Kyle.
A.J. Summer
#75. It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.
Charlie Munger
#76. But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall - when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#77. If you read fairy tales carefully, you'll notice they are mostly about people who aren't heroes. They don't have special powers, or gifts. Often they are despised as stupid, They are bullied, beaten up, robbed, starved. But they find they are stronger than their misfortunes.
Amanda Craig
#78. We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.
Ruth Haley Barton
#79. Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.
Sarah Stillman
#80. In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#81. What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?
Vicky Alvear Shecter
#82. I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.
Jack London
#83. I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler , but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin 's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#84. I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.
John Steinbeck
#85. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
Daniel Berrigan
#86. Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood
#87. I don't know who moves first, but suddenly we're kissing, like we've never kissed before. it's desperate. No tenderness. This is hard, starved-for-each-other kissing.
Samantha Towle
#88. No matter how lonely and isolated and starved for connection you are, there's always the possibility in the online world that you can find a place to be accepted, or discover a friendship that's started with the smallest of interests but could last a lifetime.
Felicia Day
#89. I clenched my teeth and tried desperately to get air to my starved brain. If this annoying red head didn't go away I was about to go all wolf up in here and it wasn't going to be pretty. My wolf was screaming at me to defend my territory. Caeden was mine and she just wouldn't get the message!
Micalea Smeltzer
#90. I felt ignorant, self-deprived, incredibly isolated, deeply and profoundly lonely and missing people, absolutely starved for affection, physically weary from alcohol, very depressed about my physical appearance, my weak muscles. Hurt and angry and sad
Augusten Burroughs
#91. The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.
Henrietta Szold
#92. Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Ellen Wilkinson
#93. You hear even a hint that a blizzard's coming, Roxanne Giselle, you go straight to the store and buy toilet paper, you hear me? And make a pot of chili or stew. Don't get caught out. I don't want a phone call saying you starved to death, stuck in the house with no stew.
Kristen Ashley
#94. An Enforcer's style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.
Lita Burke
#95. I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.
George Aiken
#96. It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey
#97. Those who are starved of wisdom do not know that they are hungry.
Jason Link
#98. Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained.
Rick Riordan
#99. The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
Jeremy Grantham
#100. I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.
Chuck Palahniuk