Quotes About Parched

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

The visual conjured in Val's mind - all that parched, wrinkled flesh in furious friction - culminated in flames, as if some giant cosmic Boy Scout had decided to rub two old people together to make a fire.

I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.

All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.

This is a thirsty country.

O the irony of desire, always hearkening after the liquid glimmer beyond the distant-most dune. Sometimes only to find that it is no different from the parched sand on which we stood days, months, years ago, in yearning.

It was like seeking water while in a desert, you just required it and didn't care how you got it.

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.

She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant a garden each spring and struggle to keep it alive past July.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

hot and dry early that year, and by the Fourth of July the grass was parched and brown and stubby. The young Teddy Roosevelt, traveling through the north part of Dakota Territory on the way to his ranches near Medora, told a newspaper reporter in mid-July that "Between the drouth, the

How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness.

aromas. Above, a ceiling of parched wood dropped dust

were half dead from too little water

New York is so dry.

arid room—all

If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.

Sick on a journey - over parched fields dreams wander on.

The ceilings of hospital rooms are stained with the oily residue of souls spat out of dying patients' parched mouths. The

small gully where the red mud had dried and cracked in a system of parched veins.

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.