D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The citizens were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the city’s aquarium were devoured and even respectable women were driven to prostitution.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

You're all you've got.

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

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

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.