Thirst Quotes - Page 22

• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

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• For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Blood, Hundred

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• Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Spring

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• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dark, Water, Evil

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

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• I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Giving

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

  Carl Sagan

  Real, Quality, Stories

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Believe, Fountain, No Hope

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Evil, Hunger And Thirst

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

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• If you thirst you may drink.

  C. S. Lewis

  May, Drink, Ifs

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• That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mean, Self, Dry

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• By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Water, Suffering, Quests

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

  Ali Smith

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Temptation, Deception, Path

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• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Odor

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• I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eternity, Quench, Maxwell

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• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. 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. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

  William Watson

  Curiosity, Discontent, Knows

  William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Science, Simple

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• I thank God that I'm a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

  Shakira

  Daughter, Grateful, Parent

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• If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Islamic, Home, Afterlife

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• As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is a Revelator: he is a Sanctifier; he reveals truth, and he cleanses human souls. He is the Spirit of Truth, and his baptism is one of fire; he burns dross and evil out of repentant souls as though by fire. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest of all the gifts of God, as pertaining to this life; and those who enjoy that gift here and now, will inherit eternal life hereafter, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Fire, Evil

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• Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found.

  Ayya Khema

  Lying, Reflection, Energy

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• If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, People, Honor

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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