Quotes about thirst
A collection of quotes on the topic of thirst, hunger, use, life.
Quotes about thirst

“Thank you, dear God
For putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged
In debt for my thirst”
Downer
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)

Nobel lecture as quoted in The Observer (17 December 1978) Variant: "They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff."

Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater (August 2004)
2000s

“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
Source: Thunderball

Look at the Harlequins! (1974).

“Never stop learning. The thirst to gain more knowledge should never come to an end.”
How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.”
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books VIII-XII, IX

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 311.
General

Letter to Maurice W. Moe (15 May 1918), in Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 60
Non-Fiction, Letters

Section 277
2010s, 2013, Evangelii Gaudium · The Joy of the Gospel

Variant translation: Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
Sec. 300
The Gay Science (1882)

Section 56
2010s, 2013, Evangelii Gaudium · The Joy of the Gospel

2013, Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (December 2013)

2015, Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2015)

The Cup, Act i, Scene 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Often the portion of this passage on "Towering genius..." is quoted without any mention or acknowledgment that Lincoln was speaking of the need to sometimes hold the ambitions of such genius in check, when individuals aim at their own personal aggrandizement rather than the common good.
1830s, The Lyceum Address (1838)
Context: It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would inspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? — Never! Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame, erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Original: (la) Regnare nolo: ditescere non libet: prae turam recuso, scortationem odi: navigare ob insatiabilem avaritiam non cupio: de coronis consequendis non dimico: liber sum ab insana gloria cupiditate: mortem contemno: guovis morbi genere superior sum: maror animum non peredit.
Source: Address to the Greeks, Chapter XI, as translated by J. E. Ryland

“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

“A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.”

“That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

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

“She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”
"The Birthmark" from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
"Water", p. 104
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)

“I'm looking for someone
to quench my thirst-for all eternity"
-Luna Maxwell”
Source: Vampireville
“I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn't just an idea.”
Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 40.
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Orig. pub. 1947), pp. 101 https://books.google.it/books?id=4WuzlD0hkSgC&pg=PA101-102.

from Care and Disappointment, first published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices, 1576. Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
Poems

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

"The Buried Life" (1852), st. 6
As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-dennis-nilsen-prison-life-555104, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
Nahj al-Balagha
My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

Source: William Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (1983), First conversation, p. 8

“Low ambition and the thirst of praise.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 591.

<p>Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Ô Prince de l'exil, à qui l'on a fait tort
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes par l'amour le goût du Paradis,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
"Les Litanies de Satan" [Litanies of Satan] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Litanies_de_Satan
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

"To David in Heaven", St. 13.
Undertones (1883)

Source: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), p. 153, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif'

XVII, 2
The Kitáb-I-Asmá

Bukhari 4:538 http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh4/bh4_541.htm This is an extraordinary hadith, because following the Sunnah of Muhammad (peace be upon him), prostitutes can be extremely despised figures among most Muslims, yet it expresses the idea that even someone working in one of the most despised of professions, in showing mercy to an animal, can merit the forgiveness of Allah, and the wise.
Sunni Hadith

German versions of the Bible that preceded the Luther Bible
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 300.