Thirst Quotes - Page 16

• At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Self, Might

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• Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Tea, Quiet, Craving

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• Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Revenge, Men, Lasts

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. November 10, 2009.

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• To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  World, Hunger And Thirst, Righteousness

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Eye, Age, Ears

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• In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

  John Updike

  Religion, Church, Weekdays

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• Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.46, Routledge

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Outsiders

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

  Sai Baba

  Hunger And Thirst, Slave, Treats

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• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Loneliness

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

  Bernard Malamud

  Ease, Language

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Tenants: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Giving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

  Emmitt Smith

  Nfl, Whole Life, Thirst For Knowledge

  "Life After Football for Emmitt Smith" by Bob Brown, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2006.

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• To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Running, Spring, Water

  Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis (1996). “Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin”, p.34, SIU Press

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• The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Real, Ideas, Personality

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• Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

  Hal Sparks

  Ideas, Bangs, Details

  "Dear GM..Your Lease is Up" by Hal Sparks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.

  Jonathan Hull

  Heart, Love Is, People

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• Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

  Liz Phair

  Hunger

  Song: Strange Loop?, Album: Exile in Guyville

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• They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

  Leopold Schefer

  Drinking, Thinking

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• If God's people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival. God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. It requires holy determination in prayer, examining ourselves to see if anything in our lives is hindering God.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Determination, Prayer, People

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• God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Vanity, Sin, Ultimate

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  C. D. Broad

  Spiritual, Healthy, Good Man

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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