Thirsts Quotes

#1. All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

Marianne Von Werefkin

#2. If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink

Cyril Of Alexandria

#3. Each time he uttered the word 'Monsieur' in his mild, compassionable voice, the man's face lighted up. The courtesy, to the ex-convict, was like fresh water to a shipwrecked man. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#4. Towering genius ... thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Sergei doesn't yearn for love ... he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

Melika Dannese Lux

#7. [M]otherlessness caused one of the great thirsts of the human condition.

Pat Conroy

#8. There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.

Thomas Shepard

#9. Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.

Gunvor Hofmo

#10. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#11. Just because an old fountain gives no more water, it cannot be despised because with the water it provided once, many trees grew up, many thirsty has quenched their thirsts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Thirsting for God O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory. PSALM 63:1-2 NLT

Various

#13. Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

Pope Francis

#14. Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It sees no distinction in adding story to story ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it ...

Abraham Lincoln

#15. Jesus wants me to tell you again ... how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine ... Not only He loves you, even more
He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy ...

Mother Teresa

#16. Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.

Sathya Sai Baba

#17. The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Philip Yancey

#18. This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#19. A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Jane Hirshfield

#20. Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#21. In a dry and thirsty land, my soul thirsts for the living God, the living water.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. "If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

Cyprian

#23. Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Kahlil Gibran

#24. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Rabindranath Tagore

#25. I'm weary of my lonely but
And of its blasted tree,
The very lake is like my lot,
So silent constantly
I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
Until I almost fear
When will the thrilling voices come
My spirit thirsts to hear?

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#26. Flesh. The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens,

Anonymous

#27. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

David Lloyd George

#28. You can't be angry with bad men. But a good man in the wrong - why one thirsts for his blood.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. As the stag pants after the waterbrooks, So pants my mind after you, O gods! My mind thirsts for gods! for living gods! When shall I come face to face with gods? - Psalm 42

Julian Jaynes

#30. Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

Victor Hugo

#31. These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.

H.P. Lovecraft