Quotes about Thirst

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Life is passing, and eternity is drawing near. Soon we shall live the very life of God. After we have been filled at the source of all bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very Fountain of all sweetness.

Power is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

The people who are really thirsty aren't going to church on Sunday. They're driving around this lake, running from their secrets, looking for a good, quiet, fill-your-stomach place to eat.

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

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.