Quotes About Thirst

El agua desalteraba sin alterarse y sin alterar mi sed. Me enseñaba el auténtico infinito, que no es una idea o una noción, sino una experiencia.

In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza si chiama riposo. La fine della sofferenza si chiama conforto. La fine della sete non ha nome. La lingua, nella sua saggezza, ha capito che non è possibile creare il contrario di sete. Ci si può dissetare, ma la parola dissetamento non esiste.

de repente el asco se invertía y no existía una palabra para expresar su antónimo, no se trataba de apetito ni de deseo, se trataba de algo más intenso...

Quand on cesse de souffrir, cela s'appelle réconfort. Cesser d'avoir soif ne s'appelle pas.

Drink me without limit, my love, may your thirst fulfill you and never be quenched, since that word does not exist in any language

El universo era generosidad y yo tenía la sed suficiente para beberme hasta el último sorbo.

Il y a des gens qui pensent ne pas être des mystiques. Ils se trompent. Il suffit d'avoir crevé de soif un moment pour accéder à ce statut. Et l'instant ineffable où l'assoiffé porte à ses lèvres un gobelet d'eau c'est Dieu.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.

Or even wanted to experience! But

There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst. The law they swore they'd get him, but the devil got him first.' Robert Mitchum wrote that for Thunder Road, the year of our Lord, 1958.

I down whatever's in the glass, though, because at this point I'd drink paint thinner out of a hobo's galoshes.

The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.

I die of thirst here at the fountainside.

Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.

For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Sometimes I think of all the times in this sweet life when I must have missed the affection I was being given. A friend calls this "standing knee-deep in the river and dying of thirst.

In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.

If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. Now, hop down. All this talk about sin has made me thirsty again.

Javisst drikker jeg. Det er så kjedelig bare å spise...

I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.

I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone. I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me. And what could you possibly do in return? Lothaire waved a negligent hand. Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

No ale for the girl, Birgit, Aidan said to the woman. Do we not have milk? Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.

My thirsty wanted whiskey...