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Thirst Quotes by Octavio Paz
- With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails…
- Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught…
- Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,…
More Thirst Quotes
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
- Fame is the thirst of youth. — Lord Byron
- My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of… — Nicolas Cage
- The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing
- The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. — Anton Chekhov
- I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know… — Priyanka Chopra
- Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon
- The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus