Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]