Appetite Quote by Thomas Hobbes

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

— Warren G. Bennis

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

— Maya Angelou

Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

— Faith Sullivan

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

— George Eliot

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to…

— Wayne Dyer

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Hope is merely another face of desire.

— Christopher Moore

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous