Desire Quote by Hanif Kureishi

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

— Herman Melville

“Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive.”

— Margaret Atwood

“That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a warm meal that was growing cold. I knew I had to eat, or else…

— Herman Koch

“Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.”

— Kaori Yuki

“... that most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else .”

— Victor LaValle

“I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.”

— Marlene Perez

“The end of starvation is quite delicious.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

“I like to feed the ghosts of my past. They’re hungry. They’re always hungry. And whatever’s left of this heart never seems to be…

— Christina Hart

“I realized that I couldn’t knowingly look to food for a way out when it had so clearly led me here. It wasn’t hunger…

— Andie Mitchell

“I was consumed, too, not by the dying but by the dead.”

— Patricia Cornwell

“I come home, To die of hunger. But my death is brief Because the body Desires Its own resurrection.”

— Ronald Baytan