Roz Chast Quotes

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

I don't know how my body would react if I don't eat for 10 days. In order to go through that experience, I almost did not eat or drink water for 15-20 days. I only had one carrot a day, a cup of black coffee, and a few sips of water.

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

To be hungry must be awful.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I am dying of hunger.

I eat next to nothing.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

I never expected to live this long.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

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

Food is a weapon.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

Hunger is a bad adviser.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.