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Quotes About Thirst

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Love is what I sought. "Hunger," they called it.
~ Gregory Orr
I have drunk you and my thirst survives But now I know the flavor of the cosmos
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
~ Gustave Le Bon
We are the total of our longings [...]
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. - Give it a name, citizen, says Joe. - Wine of the country, says he. - What's yours? says Joe. - Ditto MacAnaspey, says I. - Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.
~ James Joyce
Shize? I should shee! Macool, Macool, orra whyi deed ye diie? of a trying thirstay mournin? Sobs they sighdid at Fillagain's chrissormiss wake, all the hoolivans of the nation, prostrated in their consternation and their duodisimally profusive plethora of ululation. There was plumbs and grumes and cheriffs and citherers and raiders and cinemen too. And the all gianed in with the shout-most shoviality. Agog and magog and the round of them agrog.
~ James Joyce
Thirsty?" I said, trying to stay cool. "You know, this is totally against the rules," she said. "That makes it taste better," I said. (Good line, right?) Jeanne
~ James Patterson
Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman.
~ James Patterson
five-dollar soda
~ James Patterson
I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
~ Adam Lambert
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
~ Andrew Klavan, The Uncanny
My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.
~ Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.      
~ Thomas Paine
There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.
~ Thomas Shepard
I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.
~ Johnny Weir
There's nothing better than a cold beer.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
Try feeding a five-day hunger with some OJ that tastes like a cup of freezer burn, and nothing to wash it down but a bunch of words you can't get out of your head.
~ Norman Partridge
Desire turns us into ghosts
~ Octavio Paz
Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
~ Cormac McCarthy
Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There had to be a last man standing. And it wasnt the cuate in the Bronco begging for water.
~ Cormac McCarthy