Quotes About Thirst

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

I've studied nutrition since I was 23 and I began to find that a lot of my eating habits were to do with boredom and frustrations rather than hunger. When I was thirsty I would eat rather than drink.

From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

When you stay hydrated, you're not as hungry. Sometimes, when you think you're hungry, you're actually thirsty.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

I looked down the bar at the bartenderHe said, "Now what do you want, Johnny?""One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer"

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

To try to borrow money from Henri was like appealing to the desert for a cooling draught.

Her thirst for vengeance was greater than her love for you.

When any being calls or really yearns, the existence answers. If the thirst within you is strong enough, God always answers.

No matter who you are or what you have achieved, you still want a little more than what you have right now. This is human desire.

You are the woman who desires my kiss, and I thirst for you.

On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

I'M STARVED FOR YOU