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Quotes About Thirst

If you win once, you want more. You are not satisfied.
~ Eddy Merckx
I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.
~ Shannon Hoon
The earth drinks all that's left of you and asks for more.
~ Philip Levine
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
Wow, thank you so much for the compliment! Patty answered brightly, to end things. At the time, she believed that it was because she was so selflessly team-spirited that direct personal compliments made her so uncomfortable. The autobiographer now thinks that 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
the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.
~ Jonathan Swift
To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Would you like to have
~ Aaron Elkins
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again.The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
~ Abraham Cowley
You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more.
~ Abraham Verghese
because life is short and you too are thirsty.
~ Adrienne Rich
el corazón hambriento de cualquier migaja se alimenta
~ Pierre la Mure
Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.
~ Prakash Adhikari
But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There, there is neither body nor mind: and where is the place that shall still the thirst of the soul? You shall find naught in that emptiness. Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold is firm. Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere, Kabîr says: "Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that which you are.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
This longing for the perfect expression of his self is more deeply inherent in man than his hunger and thirst for bodily sustenance, his lust for wealth and distinction.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~ Richard Holloway
I must have a drink of breakfast.
~ W. C. Fields
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
~ Francis Quarles
You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent. So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it's not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it's not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched.   But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
~ Ram Dass