#thirst

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

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

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

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

'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

#bumper #bumper sticker #business #case #certain

People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire. ↗

— M.T. Anderson

#thirsty #vampire #beauty

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#art #clothes #clothing #designer #fashion

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#drink #entire #faith #finish #glass

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

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#i #influenced #make #me #most