Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?”

— Kit Reed

“Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn't what you wanted at all?”

— Neil Gaiman

“I didn’t want this. But that meant, as far as I could tell, I didn’t want anything. And not wanting anything anymore was the…

— Lily Seabrooke

“It’s the way humanity is; give them what they want, and it turns out it’s not what they wanted after all.”

— Kelsey Sutton

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

— Bryant McGill

“you can get everything you ever wanted and not have what you need.”

— Ruby Lionsdrake

“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”

— Leila Sales

“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“But they wanted the same things, and it wasn't a lot. Just someone who would be there for them, despite everything else, forever. Everyone…

— Lisa Henry

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

— J.R. Ward

“The things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still do anything…

— Megan Abbott

“What is it that you want from me?” Everything. But they’d get to that... soon enough.”

— Cynthia Eden