22 Metaphors for hungers

This realisation of the momentous quality of the will is the secret of every religious mystic, the hunger of the soul, as Law calls it, is the first necessity, and all else will follow.

But, you see, hunger isn't a kind old aunty, and you have to do something!

And the villagers said "Well, that is a good reason, a man can stand scolding but not starvation; we all work to fill our bellies, hunger is the worst disease of all."

"Enterprise implies sacrifice, and hunger will be a new experience.

"Stop at home, perishin' wid the cold an' hunger, an' the rain droppin' down on us while we're atin' our bit o' dinner; me that bad wid the rheumatiz I can hardly move hand or fut, an' yourself taken wid them wakenesses so that it's all ye can do to lift the potaties.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

You speak of food and wine, and I know very well that hunger is a difficult trial to endure; but you do not speak of other wants; you say nothing of honor, of faith to God and other men, of courtesy, of love without reproach.

Hunger itself was a stimulus and his sinking vitality was arrested in its decline.

From this difference, it is concluded that hunger is the cause of madness in foxes; and this agrees with the results which occurred during and after the rigorous winter of 1826-7, when these animals, with many others, suffered from want of nourishment.

Yet hunger is my doom.

Perro, it seemed, with an intelligence developed at the best and hardest of all schools, where hunger is the usher, awaited, not word, but action from his master; and had not long to wait.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Excessive hunger, in most of the flesh-eating animals, is really a first cousin to madness.

There can be no doubt that hunger is the expression of a certain specific concentration of internal secretion or secretions in the blood.

Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

He represents not only that rapacious hunger for beauty which has now for the first time become a serious problem in the healthy life of humanity, but he represents also that honourable instinct for finding beauty in common necessities of workmanship which gives it a stronger and more bony structure.

Hunger, thirst, lust, jealousy, anger, courage, and cowardicethese were the passions of both fastnesses.

Hunger is a beautiful thing, a priceless possession.

Hunger is the greatest pain he takes, except a broken head sometimes, and the labouring John Dory.

Hunger is a local disturbance, but when one is cold, every nerve in the body registers its call for help.

His behavior plainly indicated that hunger was not his chief motive.

The author handles with real subtlety the phases of Arthur's marriage with a woman much older than himself, a marriage in which the hunger of the woman for love was a greater factor than the not deeply stirred passion of the man.

22 Metaphors for  hungers