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“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

Men World Life Should Wish Sleep Existence Lord Enemy Doors This World Wall Arms Eating Lays Misery Prize Dread Foe Wretched Breach Fortresses

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.”

Giving Trying Believe Feelings Space Existence Eating Weight Ghost Being Yourself Apologizing Homeless Belly Never Quit Erase

Author:Geneen Roth

“Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.”

Humans Character Existence Human Nature Activity Eating Fundamentals Resilience Core Continuity Human Existence Like Love Human Activity Love Death

Author:Leon Botstein

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”

Men Humans Born Human Beings Existence Violence Conditions Normal Eating Conscience Fellows Killing Flesh Fellow Man Barbarism Abhorrent

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]”

Reason Existence Eating Solo Palate

Author:Juvenal

“Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.”

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.”

Ifs Together Common Existence Materials Eating Satisfaction Intimacy Meals Communion Promoters

Book:The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan

Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan

“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.”

Ifs Mind Form Existence Principles Fashion Position Youth Eating Affection Remedy Arrested

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

Men Has Beens Night Existence Food Months Eating Cooking Deny Indian Restaurants Culinary Vegetables Playwright Dining Ethos Curry Asparagus

Author:Peter Ustinov