upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine…

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe,…

— William Shakespeare

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

— William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

— William Shakespeare

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look…

— Amber Rudd

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After…

— Neil Gaiman

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…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the…

— George R. R. Martin

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and…

— Peter Weir

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the…

— Matt Ridley