C. S. Lewis Quotes

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

It really depends on how thirsty I was.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

I drink for the thirst to come.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

What we want is not always what we need.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.