Quote by C.M. Curtis

“Glory and patriotism had been exchanged for mud and blood, and once they annulled each other all that was left was duty. A soldier…

— C.M. Curtis

“As a hungry man makes haste and takes large morsels on account of his great hunger so your servant feels a great desire to…

— Raymond Lulle

“I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

— H.G. Wells

“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them.…

— R.W. Schmidt

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

— Charles Dickens

“And they well understand the need for some to die in order that a great many more can live. It is the very nature…

— Robin LaFevers

“What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.”

— Herman Melville

“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of…

— Robert Browning

“You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.”

— George R.R. Martin

“There’d been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever…

— Herta Müller

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks