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Quotes About Thirst

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.
~ Angela Carter
For how few ambitious men are there, who have got as much fame as they desired, and whose thirst after it has not been as eager in the very height of their reputation, as it was before they became known and eminent among men?
~ Joseph Addison
Not Brangien who was faithful, not Brangien, but themselves had these lovers to fear, for hearts so stricken will lose their vigilance. Love pressed them hard, as thirst presses the dying stag to the stream; love dropped upon them from high heaven, as a hawk slipped after long hunger falls right upon the bird. And love will not be hidden.
~ Joseph Bédier
My belly thinks my throat's clawed out!
~ Erin Hunter
Squirrelpaw polished hers off, looked around for more, and sighed. "What wouldn't I give for a bowl of kittypet milk!
~ Erin Hunter
Leaf-fall was in full swing, which meant leadbare wasn't far off.Her thirst quenched, Frostpaw was giving herself a quick grooming when Mothwing bounded down the bank and came to a halt beside her.
~ Erin Hunter
Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.
~ Erri De Luca
Good energy, even if it's not focused. Bad technique, but that's understandable and it can be corrected. Too much enthusiasm. There's no shame in honorable combat, but there shouldn't be so much unnatural pleasure. The man with the greatest thirst for blood ends up drinking at Hades's table.
~ Esther M. Friesner
35-38 Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever
~ Eugene H. Peterson
But you never got thirsty for me. You ignored me." GOD'S Decree. 9
~ Eugene H. Peterson
And don't miss this: In John 6, Jesus said—"I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. . . . This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion time.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
~ Eugene Ionesco
for I have read about oceanic feelings, but I know about dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean... and I have heard about the thousand points of light, but I have seen that they provide no warmth, no canopying glow ...
~ Evan Dara
I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
~ Lake Bell
I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.
~ Colin Morgan
I am very, very hungry to compete.
~ Michael Bisping
We want to win because we are hungry for success.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
I am hungry as an actor.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
~ Rupert Holmes
Even at that early age, Leslie loved to play in Cartaret Park. As much as any of the neighborhood boys, she was at home there; giggling, she'd roll in the grass for hours or climb to the top of the jungle gym in a great scrambling burst of energy. What set her apart in those first years of her life was her almost unslakable thirst for attention and affection. A smile, a pat, a wink, a wave, she loved it, she reveled in it. Most children want attention: Leslie craved it.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
The real thing was how I felt: like a root groping in darkness for water it knows is there, that it must have. Nall was that water.
~ Betsy James
Hope is the name of this river, whose water is Desire, And Thirst the waves thereof.
~ Bhartrhari
Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem, pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst. Many, fearful of annihilation at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst.
~ Bhikkhu Bodhi
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
~ Bible