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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.

— Mary Hunter Austin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

— Nicholas Haslam

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

— Stone Gossard

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

— Jose Bergamin

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

— William Langewiesche

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I drink because I'm thirsty.

— Shane MacGowan

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

— Bill Rodgers

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

— Ingrid Betancourt

✗Opposing Perspectives

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

— Georg Trakl

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

— Anne Lamott