Hermann Hesse Quotes

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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

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

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.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

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

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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

Hunger is the best pickle.

Hunger's a great spur.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

No one has starved.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

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....

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

Hunger is not debatable.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

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.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Hunger is never delicate.

Hunger never saw bad bread.