Jules Verne Quotes

I know how it feels to go hungry.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

That which could hunger, could starve.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

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

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

I don't care if I starve.