Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.
A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.
You can't eat language but it eases thirst.
We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.
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.
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.
Tea quenches tears and thirst.
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.
If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.
A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.