Quotes of Famished - somelinesforyou

“ Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. ”

- Talmud

“ Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat. ”

- Robert Collier

“ Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life…When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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