Quotes About Thirst

the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

Jesus quenches our thirst for love, because He offers a love that fills our hearts in a way no mortal relationship can.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

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

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.

If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale.

This way I prayed: "Slake the dumb thirst Of singing with a sweet libation!" But to the earthling of the earth There can be no liberation. Like smoke from sacrifice, that it could not Fly Strength- and Glory-ward -- alas - But only clouded at the feet And, as if praying, kissed the grass. Thus I, O Lord, before thee bow: Will reach the fire of the sky My lashes that are closed for now And muteness utter and divine?

What are we made of but hunger and rage?

Desire is no light thing.

Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. JOHN 4:14

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.

We scribbled down writers' reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, 'existence is to drink oneself without thirst.' We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.

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.

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.

the drought in the marrow of his bones. He

My lack of initiative was the root cause of all my troubles - of my inability to want something before having thought about it, of my inability to commit myself, of my inability to decide in the only way one can decide: by deciding, not by thinking. I'm like Buridan's donkey, dying at the mathematical midpoint between the water of emotion and the hay of action; if I didn't think, I might still die, but it wouldn't be from thirst or hunger.

Si bene quid memini, Causae sunt quinque bibendi: Hospitis adventus, praesens sitis atque futura, Aut vini bonitas, aut quaelibet altera causa.* * Jei neklystu, / Yra penkios priežastys gerti: / At?j?s svetys, esamas ar b?simas troškulys, / Geras vynas arba bet kuri kita priežastis.

To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.