Quotes About Thirst

#1. When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Alice Hegan Rice

#2. My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

Khalil Gibran

#3. But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

Laurence Sterne

#4. A cross between two species. Doomed with the thirst of the undead for human blood, yet tormented by the gargoyle drive to protect them.

Lisa Carlisle

#5. He's lithe and tanned and taut. But to my eye he's lost something. He has a synthetic quality, like orange soda instead of freshly squeezed juice. It's orangey and bubbly and it quenches your thirst, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste. And it's not good for you.

Sophie Kinsella

#6. If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Rumi

#7. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's where the answer goes; wherever a ship is, water goes to it. Don't seek the water; increase your thirst, so water may gush forth from above and below.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#9. I wasn't being noble. There was nothing noble about a thirst for revenge. It was about getting what I wanted, a chance to kill the king. And no one else would have to suffer because of me.

Elly Blake

#10. There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

Pablo Neruda

#11. Revenge truly is sweet. It takes you to a dark place, but, man, it satisfies a thirst. Then

Trevor Noah

#12. History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Wole Soyinka

#13. [Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.

Shane Claiborne

#14. With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

Gao Xingjian

#15. I was flesh thirst desire dust blood lips cracking feet blistered knees skinned hips bruised, but I was so happy not to be napping on a sofa under a blanket with an older man by my side and a baby on my lap.

Deborah Levy

#16. Then you know love in a way different than mine. The love that guides me is like water. It flows, it is pure, and it takes away the thirst for home, because love is home.

Jamila Hammad

#17. Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Duke Ellington

#18. Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Emmitt Smith

#19. Is it life threatening? they asked. They said it slightly sotto voce, but you could hear the thirst for sensation right through it: when people get a chance to come close to death without having it touch them personally, they never miss the opportunity.

Herman Koch

#20. There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.

Thomas Merton

#21. Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

Emile Augier

#22. He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Baltasar Gracian

#23. Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Khalil Gibran

#24. The place was a funeral pyre for the young
who died before knowing the thirst of man
or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair
wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine
in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture
poised over Tityus' liver.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#25. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

Laurence Bergreen

#26. I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

Jim George

#28. All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge,

Michel Foucault

#29. I am here to fuck you. To take whatever depraved act you want to enact. I am here to feed from your merciless lust, and to quench the undying thirst for degradation you have." Snapping out of his shock, he laughed.

D.H. Sidebottom

#30. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#31. The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

Jack Welch

#32. Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know ... Head and heart ... You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Nora Roberts

#33. I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#34. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

Ravi Zacharias

#35. For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge

William Shakespeare

#36. You won't believe it but
I quench my thirst
by drinking from a mirage.

Abbas Kiarostami

#37. The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

Taylor Swift

#38. The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Juvenal

#39. You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

#40. There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

John King

#41. Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#42. I daren't come and drink," said Jill.
Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.
Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."
There is no other stream," said the Lion.

C.S. Lewis

#43. It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

Jeremy Corbyn

#44. There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#45. The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst.
But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.

Chirag Tulsiani

#46. But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to.

Ayul Hendricks-Levy

#47. You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

Dante Alighieri

#48. One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

Jil Sander

#49. We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.

Karl Lagerfeld

#50. Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

Wilfred Thesiger

#51. Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

Deepak Chopra

#52. Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.

Ben Aaronovitch

#53. I closed my eyes and let the water rush over me and I wondered what it would be like to be as soft as water, to make people clean, to quench people's thirst. That would be a beautiful thing, to be like water.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#54. I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Klaus Kinski

#55. It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.

Gary Paulsen

#56. Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#57. Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness.

Mike Tomlin

#58. What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst,
A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst,
Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour,
The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#59. When Barnet returned his men were already calling out for water, and all day long the line of pits suffered greatly from thirst. For food they had chocolate and bread. 'At

H.G.Wells

#60. Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.

Toba Beta

#61. We all have a divine nature, and we have a thirst to become one with that divinity. That divinity lets us find meaning in life event at the pinnacle of happiness, lets us weep for the pain and sorrow of others, and lets us dream of a more beautiful world. (p. 154)

Ilchi Lee

#62. It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

Ian Fleming

#63. Compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.

Jonathan Franzen

#64. When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Tullian Tchividjian

#65. There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#66. Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Terry Goodkind

#67. For the first time in his life he believed without reservation in the existence of a kind and generous God, as desert thirst teaches one to believe in rain.

Anthony Marra

#68. And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

Charles Baudelaire

#69. Of course, we need stories. There's a reason "42" is not a satisfying answer to life, the universe, and everything. Structure alone doesn't quench our existential thirst. We want meaning. And for our brains, meaning comes in the form of stories.

Amanda Gefter

#70. Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Miguel De Cervantes

#71. Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

Mary Oliver

#72. Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Antonio Damasio

#73. No-I'm not going to wallow and pretend it was 'better in the old days' - that's a tedious and thankless occupation. It's just when you live in a desert and you feel proper thirst you try to quench it in the only way you're able, by falling down to the old and dried up springs.

Larisa Miller

#74. We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!

Israelmore Ayivor

#75. No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance

Douglas Adams

#76. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#77. 6Blessed are those who hunger and x thirst y for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Anonymous

#78. Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.

Amy Jo Martin

#79. Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

#80. There are things you're certain about. That you'd bet your life on. Things that you just know. You know the heat of a fire will burn you. Water will quench your thirst. She is one of those things; the most unerring certainty of my life.

Katy Evans

#81. Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.

Emil Cioran

#82. You tell them you have a hunger and a thirst. You don't sit at the same table but you have a hunger and a thirst.

A. J. Jacobs

#83. This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

Prem Rawat

#84. Thirst had driven him into the desert again,

H.P. Lovecraft

#85. Then he would cry, but what nobody knows nobody cares for; so he would cry till he was tired, and then fall asleep; and while we are asleep we can feel neither hunger nor thirst. Ah, yes; sleep is a capital invention.

Hans Christian Andersen

#86. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Anonymous

#87. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

#88. Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

Liz Phair

#89. He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Li Bai

#90. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

William Butler Yeats

#91. Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Charles Dickens

#92. If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

Gautama Buddha

#93. I die of thirst beside the fountain.

Francois Villon

#94. Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#95. Appetite comes with eating ... but thirst goes away with drinking.

Francois Rabelais

#96. In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#97. You are my water. Making love with you is all I need to quench my thirst. Why would I throw this away for water from the ocean?

Sylvain Reynard

#98. ... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.
- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.
- Wine of the country, says he.
- What's yours? says Joe.
- Ditto MacAnaspey, says I.
- Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.

James Joyce

#99. What it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.

Nadine Gordimer

#100. His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

Graham Greene