Quotes About Thirst

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

The thirst to do something outrageous and heroic had never left her.

He felt at times that he was a kind of vegetable, and he longed for something—even pain—to pierce him, to bring him alive.

That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert." Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

I would kneel by the bank, in the grasses dank, And drink you, drink you, drink you. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from "If," Picked Poems . (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1912)

Heaven is a good place. I long to be there and behold my lovely Jesus, who gave His life for me, and be changed into His glorious image. Oh, for language to express the glory of the bright world to come! I thirst for the living streams that make glad the city of our God.—The Adventist Home, pp. 542, 543.

Let him who is struggling against the power of appetite look to the Saviour in the wilderness of temptation. See Him in His agony upon the cross, as He exclaimed, "I thirst." He has endured all that it is possible for us to bear. His victory is ours.

I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14 NKJV).

He didn't adore Stella. He craved her, like water in a desert.

The wine of immortality I carry with me, and so am never thirsty.

Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.

All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood

Until the Desert knowsThat Water growsHis Sands sufficeBut let him once suspectThat Caspian FactSahara dies.

I tasted—careless—then—I did not know the WineCame once a World—Did you?Oh, had you told me so—This Thirst would blister—easier—now

The thirst of the soul was to be satisfied, the deep torture of the spirit to have rest.

Indeed there must have been a very deep-seated dissatisfaction with life, a very intense thirst of heart, and an almost absolute poverty of thought, to secure the acceptance of the Christian absurdity, the most audacious and monstrous of all religious absurdities.

How hungry one's heart gets!

Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!

In these unquenchable desires we feel The thirsty future's dominant appeal; And through the fire of our impassioned dust A thousand ancestors their loves reveal.

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

God in the dark can make a man thirst for the light, who never in the light sought but the dark.