Quotes About Thirst

The drive to know fuels the desire to seek.

I can never be satisfied I always look for more.

It's never the value of water but thirst, it's never the value of life but death and it's never about the friendship but trust.

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Don't listen to the words— they're only little shapes for what you're saying, they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

The book is water in the desert.

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

Era la sed y el hambre, y tú fuiste la fruta. Era el duelo y las ruinas, y tú fuiste el milagro. —Pablo Neruda, "La canción desesperada

Look for God like a man on fire looks for water.

Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say that our longing for God is God's longing for us. In this way, prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space.

For all of my life I have needed more.

water was running down from the glaciers high above. A moment later all six were on their knees, drinking.

Their tongues were swollen with thirst

no peace with Napoleon, that he was possessed of a thirst for power that could never be assuaged; our only hope lay in opposing him to the utmost.

YOU MUST NEVER SLEEP UNDER A MAGNOLIA when the tree begins to flower like a glimpse of Flesh when the flower begins to smell as if its roots have reached the layer of Thirst upon the unsealed jar of Joy Alice, you should never sleep under so much pure pale so many shriek-mouthed blooms as if Patience had run out of Patience

The purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to 'soften' our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the hidden 'thirst and hunger' for communion with God.

It's not that the old are wise But that we thirst for the wisdom we had at twenty when we understood everything when our brains bubbled with tingling insights percolating up from our brilliant genitals when our music rang like a global siege shooting down all the lies in the world oh then we knew the truth then we sparkled like mica in granite and now we stand on the shore of an ocean that rises and rises but is too salt to drink

Wash your gullet with wine for the Dog Star returns with the hear of summer searing a thirsting earth. Cicadas cry softy under high leaves, and pour down shrill song incessantly from under their wings. The artichoke blooms, and women are warm and wanton— but men turn lean and limp for the burning Dog Star parches their brains and knees.

No sabe lo que significa tener tanta sed y no tener derecho a beber mientras el agua fluye ante la mirada de uno, hermosa, salvadora, al alcance de sus labios. El agua te es negada a ti, que acabas de atravesar el desierto, por la incongruente razón de que no eres de su agrado. ¡Como si el agua tuviera derecho a rechazarte! ¡Menuda imprudencia! ¿Acaso no se trata de tener sed de ella y no viceversa?