Quotes About Quenched

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

But his heart had lit never to be quenched again, and one thing in him at last was real.

A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.

Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Yet though sorrow for the past could be quenched, dread of the future could not.

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!

This is the sin that the avaricious confess to Dante. "Our eyes would never seek the height,/Being bent on earthly matters," so that "love of all true good was quenched in us/By avarice, and our works were left undone.

I've cried out, and my cry has been answered--but life, with all its contradictions and ambiguities, hasn't ended there. The thirsty man drinks and gets thirsty again.

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

The intense atom glowsA moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.