Thirst Quotes

• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• The soul’s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.

  F. F. Bruce

  Soul, Made, Satisfied

  F. F. Bruce, Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1994). “The Gospel of John: Introduction, Exposition, Notes”, p.105, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Education, Business

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65

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• No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

  Nelson Mandela

  Earth, Dignity, Humans

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2016

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  The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

  Martin Luther

  Drink, Fountain, Remarkable

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

  William Langewiesche

  Rain, Desert, Littles

  William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.18, Vintage

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• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Water, Wells, Satisfied

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Immortality, Proof

  "Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers".

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• Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Renewal, Site, Persons

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• When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

  Horace

  Gold, Desire, Cups

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Water, Gone

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• You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Encouragement, Real

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• ... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

  Thomas Paine

  Disease, Natural, Thirst For Power

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• Thirst drove me down to the water
  where I drank the moon's reflection.

  Rumi

  Reflection, Moon, Water

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Desire, Satisfied, Filled

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• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pride, Cost, Hunger And Thirst

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Cutting, Night

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.120, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Body, Hunger And Thirst

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

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• The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spring, Self, Forever

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• The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Infinity, Infinite, Prove

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• An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Longing, Reason, Hysterical

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• It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

  Plautus

  Water, Digging, Wells

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 862-63, Mostellaria, II. 1. 32, 1922.

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