Quotes About Unfulfilled

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Sovint, de nit, em desvetlla l'enyor i faig recompte, ingenu i greu, de tantes afinitats perdudes, dels propòsits desats en un calaix per no fer nosa.

They were not happy, they could not settle, they had the distrait air of cats whose feet had not been buttered.

Childhood dreams were left alone to rot in peace.

he hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.

The best love affairs are those we never had

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

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

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia, it's for everything we've never seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we haven't read, all that food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only kind of real nostalgia there is.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!" Her

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.