Forgetting to eat their bread

And first, men who are under strong emotions of mind, who are affected with any vehement passion such as sorrow or fear, are often swallowed up in it, and even forget to eat their bread. At such seasons they have little regard for food, not even what is needful to sustain nature, much less for any delicacy or variety, being taken up with quite different thoughts. Thus when Saul said, I am sore distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, it is recorded he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night (1 Samuel 28:15-20). Thus those who were in the ship with Saint Paul, when no small tempest lay upon them and all hope that they should be saved was taken away, continued fasting, having taken nothing, no regular meal, for 14 days together (Acts 27:20-33). And thus David and all the men who were with him, when they heard that the people were fled from the battle, and that many of the people were fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son were dead also, mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for the house of Israel (2 Samuel 1:11-12).