Quotes About Unfulfilled

She cried for the love that could never be, for the kisses she could never again enjoy, for the arms that could never again hold." A Proper Companion.

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

There's a very real cognitive and spiritual burden of having to carry so many unfulfilled promises forever into the future, where anyone can ask at any time "Where is my feature?

I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

Her love for men had always been somehow neurotic and unfulfilled.

If only there were not these vain ghostly hopes, these sudden inane shadows of possibilities, these unfulfilled conditionals of hopeless desire.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

I only have to worry about spending the rest of my life wanting someone I can't have.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.

Minusta on tullut sees, koska minun on mahdotonta olla tyytyväinen.

I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of us weren't even doing little things.

He was one of those men, moreover, who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them;

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

You know people like this, right? People who are incapable of enjoying anything.

In that nondescript period between the end of the beige fifties and the beginning of the Day-Glo sixties, I found myself drifting unfulfilled in an ocean of circumstance.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

Guilt is the unlived life.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.