Thirst Quotes

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

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

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.