Bereavement Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey.…

— Eli Brown

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you…

— John O'Donohue

People have to have food for their souls.

— Haris Pasovic

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

— I. L. Peretz

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

— Epictetus

I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

— Olive Ann Burns

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

— Margaret Atwood