Quotes About Unfulfilled

You're a few fries short of being a happy meal.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

You're hurting me without you knowing...if only I can tell you what I feel maybe it will make a difference.I hate this always at your side but not the girl you want.

Egbert, alas, never got to make his planned pilgrimage, and died later in the same year.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Il vento trascina lontano tutto ciò che credevo di volere. Sono un disgraziato a spasso nella vita.

The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.

La literatura quizá hace a los seres humanos más aptos para la infelicidad, porque despierta unos apetitos y deseos que no pueden cumplirse, pero enriquece la sensibilidad de las personas y las da una comprensión mayor del mundo. Los hace…sentir mucho más aptos para la libertad.

All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

We have to be careful about what we project out into the future, because nothing else has the potential to create more unhappiness and emotional misery than an unfulfilled expectation.

The best love affairs are those we never had

we feel regret's sharp sting when we reflect on the opportunities squandered, the choices deferred, the efforts not made

When she thought about it – and increasingly she had been thinking about it – Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become. And there really were quite a lot of things she hadn't become.

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the kens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, as infinitum, until our time runs out.

A kind of timidity can set in with familiarity. A fear of change. We can end up stuck in jobs we don't like, in unhealthy relationships, with similar unhelpful attitudes. We call this the "comfort zone" but often it is the opposite. A discomfort zone, a stagnation zone, an unfulfilled zone

When she thought about it – and increasingly she had been thinking about it – Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become.

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.

Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become. And there really were quite a lot of things she hadn't become. The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind.

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

His life was always like this moment -- almost brilliant, almost clever, almost and always not quite.

Kasno je, sje?anja, uzalud se javljate, beskorisne su vaše nemo?ne utjehe i podsje?anja na ono što je moglo da bude, jer što nije bilo, nije ni moglo da bude. A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono što se nije ostvarilo. Vi ste varka koja ra?a nezadovoljstvo, varka koju ne mogu i ne želim da otjeram jer me razoružava i tihom tugom brani od patnje.

I'd been a substitute for something they both wanted and neither could have.