Quotes About Unfulfilled

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all. I

nothing can satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

And a while later: 'It is a strange sort of pain.' Softly. 'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.

The feeling that everyone feels, of a life not lived.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

I was supposed to direct a film on Gautam Buddha. That didn't work out. A pity, because the entire script had been written. It was in English.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

I had always wanted to compose music for movies, but had never been given the opportunity.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life was passing her by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.

Why should they be grateful? They came here looking for something much more. What we gave them, all the years, all the fighting we did on their behalf, what do they know of that? They think it was God-given. Until they came here, they knew nothing of it. All they feel now is disappointment, because we haven't given them everything possible.