Quench Quotes
79 Quench quotes by 74 unique authors
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All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the…
— Countee Cullen
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Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for…
— Ayya Khema
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A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
— William Shakespeare
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Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old…
— Herbert Lockyer
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches…
— Saint Augustine
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Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and…
— Kedar Joshi
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
— Walter Scott
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The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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…
— Larry Winget
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Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would…
— John Muir
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First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench…
— Winston Churchill
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and…
— John Donne
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
— William Shakespeare
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If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to…
— Charles Dickens
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There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we…
— Sharon Salzberg
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And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man,…
— Anne Bradstreet
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Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a…
— Christopher Moore
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She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be.…
— Steven Erikson
Who Wrote These Quench Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 79 Quench Quotes, led by these top contributors: