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Quotes About Unavailability

I acknowledge I have a pattern of falling for men who are emotionally unavailable, physically unavailable in terms of distance, or categorically unavailable with respect to time or where they are in life.
~ Kenya Moore
But Sanskrit, the language of power, emerged in India from a minority, and at first its power came precisely from its nonintelligibility and unavailability, which made it the power of an elite group.
~ Wendy Doniger
The mother's unavailability to supply the emotional fuel dampened or thwarted the child's desire to individuate and become his real self,
~ James F. Masterson
This country's in the grips of total pandemonium. All over Japan, it's as if eighty million people had simultaneously gone out of their minds. Staple foods are either rationed or else completely unavailable, and the distribution always seems to be running behind schedule. On top of that, the authorities have cracked down on hoarding, and anyone caught laying in supplies is ruthlessly punished.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable.
~ Amit Kalantri
Well, why not? My dream woman has always been been unavailable to me. What difference does a mere three-quarters of a century make?
~ Richard Matheson
Neither Hubert, Melissa, nor Cutesy can come to the phone now.
~ Ann M. Martin
I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.
~ Marian Keyes
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
~ Julian Sands
Sorry!" the She-dogs yelled from the other side. "We're closed!
~ Shelly Laurenston
Attachment theory teaches us that our loved one is our shelter in life. When that person is emotionally unavailable or unresponsive, we face being out in the cold, alone and helpless. We are assailed by emotions—anger, sadness, hurt, and above all, fear. This is not so surprising when we remember that fear is our built-in alarm system; it turns on when our survival is threatened.
~ Sue Johnson
I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.
~ Rene Redzepi
Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I think you're just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I'm afraid I'll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away.
~ Ann Everett
expecting anything so fine and wonderful to be turning the corner upon me? I came near being found unworthy. Hard by, says he, is a café, snug and suitable for the entertainment of idiosyncrasies. Let us go there and have drink while we discuss the unavailability of the categorical. So saying, he marched me and Tobin to the back room of a saloon, and ordered the drinks, and laid the money on the table. He looks at me and Tobin like brothers of his, and we have the segars.
~ O. Henry
Of course, I thought. Unavailable. Just Charlotte's type. Charlotte, in fact, had used that same expresion every time she mentioned the Dude. He's so my typo. What most people mean by type is a sense of attraction- a type of physical appearance or a type personality turns them on, But what underlies a person's type, in fact, is a sense o familiarity.
~ Lori Gottlieb
all that a world could be, no matter what, is, somewhere, in some way. fullness of possibles, consistency. no matter which talking head, mine for example, adjacent to my body and why not against my face, the angel's, the black shadow face itself, but all the seats are taken, all the worlds unavailable to you.
~ Unknown
Freedom} is certainly not the right to own the economic, social, political, or cultural capital in order to dominate others and trade their happiness in a monopolistic market. Freedom is the process by which you develop a practice for being unavailable for servitude. -Avery F Gordon paraphrasing Toni Cade Bambara p.42
~ Maggie Nelson
Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint. They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic. And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC.
~ Unknown
The people you've always relied on, the ones you always believed would be there no matter what, may suddenly seem unavailable.
~ Unknown