poverty Quotes

“What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:youth poverty desire

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

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“Scotland . . . is too cold, a country for locusts, and too poor a country for thieves.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

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“Who, being loved, is poor?”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

topic:love poverty

“I said, let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler: but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

topic:knowledge hope poverty

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war poverty

“the rebellions of the belly are the worst.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:loneliness poverty failure

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:poverty kindness

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