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Quotes About Thirst

I don't have anything to eat in my house but chips and Gatorade.
~ Jayson Tatum
I needed a drink and was in a hurry to get one. I
~ Raymond Chandler
I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
~ Raymond Chandler
There's much more behind our thirst for monsters than curiosity or escapism. There is fear that the earth is loosing the last regions where myth can flourish.
~ Reinhold Messner
He remembered a joke he had heard in a Cairo café. A prophet in the middle of a desert tells a traveller who is dying of thirst that all he needs is water. There is no water, replies the traveller. Yes, the prophet agrees, but if there was you would not be thirsty and you would not die. So I will die, says the traveller. Not if you drink water, replies the prophet.
~ Richard Flanagan
There is a German word, Sehnsucht , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.
~ Julian Barnes
As the stag pants after the waterbrooks, So pants my mind after you, O gods! My mind thirsts for gods! for living gods! When shall I come face to face with gods? —Psalm 42
~ Julian Jaynes
The night of his arrest, he asked me to go get him a glass of water. We'd just gone to bed and I was so tired. I was exhausted. So I told him to go get it himself. 'Next time I will,' he said, and then he rolled over and went right to sleep. Later, as they were taking him away, all I could think was, 'Now he'll always be thirsty.' Even now, in my dreams, he's still searching for water.
~ Julie Otsuka
Singur?tatea era o sete nesatisf?cut? de iluzii.
~ K?b? Abe
Cualquier cosa era buena para humeceder la garganta; de dejas las cosas tal como estaba, podría acabar por consumir la sangre de mi cuerpo
~ K?b? Abe
Iubirea înseamn?, în esen??, a fi însetat de ceva ce r?mâne absent. De aceea iubirea omeneasc? este atât de dezam?gitoare.
~ Karen Armstrong
A few brief, paltry kisses after so long apart, it wasn't enough. It was a single sip of water offered to a man dying of thirst. He hungered
~ Karen Miller
Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l'air du temps.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
~ Karl Marx
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
~ T. S. Eliot
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
~ James F. Cooper
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
~ Mencius
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.
~ Josh Billings
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
~ C. S. Lewis
The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.
~ Christopher Pike
Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
~ Cormac McCarthy
A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.
~ Denise Levertov
There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.
~ Edward Lear
I'm a blue Powerade man myself.
~ Evan Goldberg