Henry Cloud Quotes

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I want to live.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

I eat to survive, you know?

I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.

To want is to have a weakness.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

That which could hunger, could starve.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Wanting and needing are two different things.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.