Lewis Carroll Quotes

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

Still, everybody wants to eat.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.