Brilliant-prose Quote by Katherine Arden

“Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“The world is to the young.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Most people have more needs than wants. That's why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants…

— Amor Towles

“You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn,…

— Augustus Rose

“The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He has his wish, whose wish can be to have what is enough.”

— Cleanthes

“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

— Colum McCann

“Some of us aren't meant to ever have what we want in life,” he said.”

— Keary Taylor

“It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.”

— Michael Stein

“The more you want from the world the more you must give to others.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.”

— Siri Hustvedt