Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?
The more they drink the more they thirst.
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.
The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.
I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.
If you thirst you may drink.
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.