hunger, n.Definitions

Hunger is good discipline.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger is stronger than feelings. The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Hunger is appetite ... the want of which afflicts the rich with disease and satiety.

Hunger is a hard matter to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Hunger is isolating... it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination... it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

Hunger is a simple state. It is a feeling of discomfort and a knowledge of the means to suppress it. Similarly, without any knowledge, a series of movements can take place in the organism whose aim is to suppress hunger. The stimulation of this mechanism is felt at the same time as the hunger.

Hunger is the feeling of incompleteness that is overcome by extending my subjectivity into the world and literally incorporating another being, making it identical with myself, and thereby restoring my self-unity through sacrificing the thing.