Wanting Quotes

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head.

~ D.s. Mixell

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

~ Joel Osteen

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

~ Jolene Perry

I wish I could fly.I wish I were rich.I wish I had more time.”“But you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

~ Jamie Ford

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.

~ Toba Beta

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.

~ Adam Phillips

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

~ Rainbow Rowell

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

~ Lorii Myers

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

~ John Lubbock

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.

~ V.c. Andrews

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to be rather than being in a constant state of want.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes, we want what we want. Even if we know it's going to kill us.

~ Trevor Driggers

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

~ Holly Black

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.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

~ 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

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.

~ Leonora Morrison

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

~ Dan Groat

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

~ Laura Lippman

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl.

~ Ally Condie

Wanting and wishing are very different

~ Jonathan Friesen

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection.

~ A.m. Homes

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

~ Michelle Hodkin

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

~ Neil Gaiman

Everyone says that hope is the feeling that something desirable is likely to happen which gives people the expectation that something good would occur. But the thing is, people hope for something. They only HOPE for that certain thing. For what is that hope that people say if they wouldn't take action to make that hope happened. It's just like wanting something or someone but not doing anything to have them.

~ Keziah Ruth D. Lingco

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

~ Donna Tartt

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

~ Stanley Kubrick

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

~ Dan Groat

If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

~ Shannon Celebi