Digging deep Quote by Jack Gilbert

I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine.…

— Emily Dickinson

“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out of money…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it might satisfy…

— Tara Brach

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger…

— Bhartrhari

“It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to…

— Celeste Ng

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like…

— Khaled Hosseini

That terrible feeling of being hungry and knowing what to eat....

— Anonymous

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

— John Milton

“We all enter this world as potential barefoot fruitarians. Fruit has that up front mixture of appeals, vibrant colours, the tantalising textures and deliciously…

— Mango Wodzak

After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women…

— Lorrie Moore

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need…

— Ellen Hopkins

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

— Pitirim Sorokin