Want Quotes

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

~ Rachel Kushner

I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

~ Munia Khan

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

~ Henry David Thoreau

At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me. . . . I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork. . . . In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254)

~ Victoria Moran

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

~ John Green

God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.

~ Steven Magee

Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.

~ Lex Martin

Unless the consequence is ‘death by firing squad’ in my opinion, you do have a choice, and when you choose to do something as opposed to have to do it, you feel so much more motivated and inspired to do it.

~ Malti Bhojwani

Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Come closer, and I will tell you.But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.

~ Marie Rutkoski

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

~ Mathias Malzieu

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

~ Nicole Kiefer

What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.

~ Esther Jno-Charles

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

~ Bryant Mcgill

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

~ Turcois Ominek

Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.

~ Steven Redhead

Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

~ Steven Redhead

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

~ Will Advise

There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.- from Dimpellumpzki

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer

~ Nikki Rae

If what you want does not exist, why not create it?

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

~ Diana Athill

If you want to live in a state known for its corruption, come to Arizona!

~ Steven Magee

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

~ Craig Groeschel

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

~ Patrick Süskind

If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for control. The act of taking, of breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive.

~ V.e. Schwab

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me. Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

~ Craig Groeschel

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

~ Dan Groat

I pushed her shiny blond hair away from her face and leaned down, our faces only inches apart. She inhaled softly, our lips so close I could feel her breath and the scent of her skin, like honeysuckle in springtime. She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.I pulled my fingers through her hair and held it at the back of her neck. Her skin was soft and warm, like a Mortal girl's. There was no electric current, no shocks. We could kiss for as long as we wanted. If we had a fight, there wouldn't be a flood or a hurricane, or even a storm. I wouldn't find her on the ceiling of her bedroom. No windows would shatter. No exams would catch fire.Liv held up her face to be kissed.She wanted me.

~ Kami Garcia

He begins to want. He begins to crave. He wants to possess. His mind finally begins to process, to think and plan...He gives her his darkest, most serious look. He's telling her 'get ready, here we go.

~ Donya Petrock

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

~ Esther Dalseno

If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.

~ Steven Magee

Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34.

~ Felix Wantang

He wanted his old life back instead of this new hell on earth that he had created for himself.

~ Valenciya Lyons