Starve Quotes

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Bessel van der Kolk
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.”
Bessel A. van der Kolk

“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.”
Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World

Harlan Coben
“You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.”
Harlan Coben, The Woods

John Fowles
“Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.”
John Fowles, The Magus

Anthony Ryan
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.”
Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“With our attention we often water either the seed of what we want but do not have, or the tree of what we have but do not want.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Savo Heleta
“The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.”
Savo Heleta, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

Sanjo Jendayi
“She keeps telling
herself and others
that she doesn't want
a relationship to silence
the longing in her soul.
That alternative fact
feeds her insecurities
and starves her soul.”
Sanjo Jendayi

Don Roff
“It's better to write something, anything, than to starve the monster. The monster must feed. And it will feed on your soul if not your words. Its appetite is insatiable. Write to save yourself from the monster.”
Don Roff

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The soul starves in the excesses of the body.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Michael Bassey Johnson
“You have two options in life: stay home, and stay hungry, or go out there, pluck some cashews, and convert them into cash.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A lot of people are all foliage and no fruit. And because they are, it might be a really beautiful orchard but we’re going to starve anyway.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Michael Bassey Johnson
“An empty stomach will teach you lessons a full stomach can’t.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Michael Bassey Johnson
“You give a whole lot of respect to food when you know what hunger is capable of.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Food is not everything, they say, but it means the world to a starving person.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Propaganda’s favorite delicacy is ignorance. Take that out of its diet and it will starve.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Starve your distractions, feed your focus.”
Anonymous

Steven Magee
“The corrupt government is in the process of trying to starve the poor to death.”
Steven Magee

Chris Ernest Nelson
“Love may be food if you
feed it to the ones
you love.

But if you want to feed
it to yourself, you
will starve.”
Chris Ernest Nelson, Harvest: The Poetry of Chris Ernest Nelson

Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I'm here with [i]you[/i]. If I need brains for sustenance, I'm going to starve.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonbane

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Too often life is like a pot of stew that we made without a recipe. A lot of things got in there that shouldn’t have, a lot of things that should have didn’t, and everyone around the table would rather starve than eat it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Recklessly feeding all of our passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ljupka Cvetanova
“I don't understand models. They starve to stay thin so that they can feed themselves..”
Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Don’t feed the mouth, and starve the brain.
Feed them both.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Michael Bassey Johnson
“The rich hear about starvation.
The poor can write a novel about it.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Sarah J. Maas
“Here, class lines are far more blurred, it seems. There, it's defined by money. Either you have it and don't share it, or you are left to starve and fight for your survival.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them.”
Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

GLEN NESBITT
“I'm not great at solving puzzles or riddles. Especially those riddles where you have to ride boats back and forth with foxes, geese, and sacks of grain. The fox would eat everything and I would starve.”
Glen Nesbitt, BREAK OUT OF HEAVEN

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