Emotional Quote by Pitirim Sorokin

“...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food…

— Michael Moss

We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells…

— Albert Einstein

Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like…

— Brad Alan Lewis

“It turns out that we’re just like Pavlov’s dogs. Growing up, we were taught by various means to reflexively eat when we felt unwanted…

— Hancock MD, Rita

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand…

— Caroline Knapp

“After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits: man could…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“Then came a long period of bodily privation; of daily hunger after food; and though he tried to persuade himself he could bear want…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger…

— Barry Lopez

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I…

— Jules Verne

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to…

— Joseph Conrad

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the…

— Joseph Addison

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan