#thirst

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #thirst




To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.


Jose Bergamin


#drink #other #perfection #rarely #sensuality

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.


Anton Chekhov


#compassion #fear #grief #hand #others

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.


Khalil Gibran


#drinking #dry #easier #flowing #i

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.


Richard Holloway


#after #children #disciplines #each #eagerly

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.


Aldous Huxley


#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.


Alvar N. C. de Vaca


#agreed #certain #death #did #god

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.


Anne Lamott


#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

I always had this thirst for excitement.


Nicole Miller


#excitement #had #i #i always #thirst

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.


Thomas Love Peacock


#drinking #other #prevent #reasons #thirsty

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.


Sophocles


#gave #him #man #more #offer