Wanting Quotes

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... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe… — Catherine Ryan Hyde
How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin… — Jessica Day George
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. — Haruki Murakami
We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. — Julie Otsuka
Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it… — Augusten Burroughs
There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. — Pema Chodron
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch… — Beryl Markham
Wanting to leave is enough. — Cheryl Strayed
The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont — George R. R. Martin
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged… — Ivo Andric
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot… — Carl Sandburg
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. — David Levithan
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a… — Sijie Dai
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer… — Franz Kafka
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether weâ€™re actually motivated by altruism… — John Green
Knowing he was suffering pained me. Thatâ€™s the way love tangles you up. I couldnâ€™t stop loving him, and couldnâ€™t shut off the feelings of… — Paula McLain
The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work,… — Adam Rex

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