“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Matka Tereza

Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s

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Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910–1997

Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God

Dearly Beloved, Vol. III (1990)

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Quien hace un paraíso de un pan, de su hambre hace un infierno.
Voces (1943)

“Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.”

Jean Dubuffet book Prospectus et tous écrits suivants

As quoted in Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews, ed. Valerie da Costa and Fabrice Hergott; Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona 2006, p. 14
1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967

“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist;
There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this.
But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice?
But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight.
Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"Prove It All Night"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”

Jacques Ellul book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

Vintage, p. 38
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.”

Patch Adams (1945) Physician, activist, diplomat, author

As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
Context: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.

“As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.”
Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames.

Horace book Odes

Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

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