Quotes About Thirst

It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience.

Nancy kept licking her lips. The inside of her mouth felt as dry as dust.

No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company of young men; She did. But her sharp tongue sliced through their egos and her intellectual thirst quickly soaked up what drops of knowledge they shed.

Vihakin kaipaa kohdettaan.

I am the Love Cactus. Make desert to me.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst. - Scottish proverb

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

Y si leo, si compro libros y los devoro, no es por un placer intelectual —yo no tengo placeres, sólo tengo hambre y sed— ni por un deseo de conocimientos sino por una astucia inconsciente que recién ahora descubro: coleccionar palabras, prenderlas en mí como si ellas fueran harapos y yo un clavo, dejarlas en mi inconsciente, como quien no quiere la cosa, y despertar, en la mañana espantosa, para encontrar a mi lado un poema ya hecho.

Porque nadie tiene más sed de tierra, de sangre y de sexualidad feroz que estas criaturas que habitan los fríos espejos.

Remember it . Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.

como sólo puedo amar yo: con una desesperación sin límites, sin esperanza, suicidamente, dementemente, estérilmente. como quien sueña que tiene hambre y se despierta y llora de sed como quien sueña que tiene sed y se despierta y llora de hambre.

Alguien entra en el silencio y me abandona. Ahora la soledad no está sola. Tú hablas como la noche. Te anuncias como la sed.

No Las palabras no hacen el amor Hacen la ausencia Si digo agua ¿beberé? Si digo pan ¿comeré?

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

All thirsts are without explanations, as are all loves.

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink the thirstier you get. The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It's difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below.

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

Look at the sun! It's dry, it's dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I'll give it blood!