Quotes About Thirst

You make me want. You make me want things I've never wanted.

I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast.

ground, then drank some and fancied it

I ran with him and suddenly I was released from fear as the mad, God-given joy of battle came to me for the very first time. Later, much later, I learned that the joy and the fear are the exact same things, the one merely transformed into the other by action, but on that summer afternoon I was suddenly elated. May God and His angels forgive me, but that day I discovered the joy that lies in battle and for a long time afterwards I craved it like a thirsty man seeking water.

Some great goods are logically bound up with certain evils. To take a trivial illustration, a drink of cold water when you are very thirsty on a hot day may give you such great pleasure that you think the previous thirst, though painful, was worth enduring, because without it the subsequent enjoyment could not have been so great.

You can drink from all sorts of wells, but unless the source of your water is the Living Water Himself, you will never be satisfied.

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1

Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! John 4:14

He has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:9

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

Desire has no history...

Sì. Ma la bellezza non è tutto. E' meglio essere assetati di bellezza e comprenderla, che essere belli e basta. Alla fine la vita risulta più ricca. Un giorno forse lo imparerà.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

what was life without appetite?

Sólo aquel que va en busca del agua puede romper el cántaro. Lo sé, abuela. Pero cuéntaselo a quien espera en la aldea muerto de sed.

Suddenly she was ravenous—but not for soup or shrimp risotto or anything else on the overpriced menu. She was hungry for...things. Acts. Human contact.

It was never because you wanted more, it was because you wanted everything.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Water may become increasingly scarce and precious...; that's why I drink beer!

lemon barley squash.

As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.

Tenía frío y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua: pedía libros, es decir, horizontes, es decir, escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón. Porque la agonía física, biológica, natural, de un cuerpo por hambre, sed o frío, dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida