Wanting Quotes

1660 quotes by 1326 authors

So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of… — Janet Fitch
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt… — Nicole Krauss
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and… — Matthew Kelly
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. — Jane Austen
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted… — John Waters
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged… — Steve Martin
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,… — Ann Radcliffe
I donâ€™t know if youâ€™ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not… — Stephen Chbosky
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like… — Alan Lightman
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult
And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help… — Diana Gabaldon
I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself… — Christopher Barzak
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges… — Robert James Waller
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be… — Melina Marchetta
I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a… — Janet Fitch
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. — Roger Zelazny
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias… — Kay Redfield Jamison
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is… — Charles Bukowski
One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray… — William Faulkner

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