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Quotes About Wanting

We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing, but the brack of wanting what's physical to help us forget we are physical.
~ Cate Marvin
I've just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.
~ Judd Trump
I was training most nights and was missing out. I was coming back from school and wanting to go out with my mates, but I had to go training.
~ Daniel James
There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.
~ Victor Klemperer
Every week someone rings me up wanting to open a new Messner museum, but I'm not interested.
~ Reinhold Messner
I would suffer. I would suffer. I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
~ Cheryl Strayed
where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting
~ Jane Austen
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
~ Louis Pasteur
I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
~ Cynthia Nixon
What is desire? Desire is a restaurant. Desire is watching you eat. Desire is pouring wine for you. Desire is looking at the menu and wondering what it would be like to kiss you. Desire is the surprise of your skin. Look - in between us now are the props of ordinary life - glasses, knives, cloths, Time has been here before. History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. The props change, but not this. Not this single naked wanting you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
How came the noble Timon to this change? TIMON: As the moon does, by wanting light to give: But then renew I could not, like the moon; There were no suns to borrow of.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah, my love, do not be afraid of neediness: it is our greater destiny. Love is so much more fatal than I had thought, love is as inherent as wanting itself, and we are guaranteed by a necessity that shall renew itself continuously. Love already is, it is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce—which is called passion.
~ Clarice Lispector
Loneliness leaves some after-effects. Mostly just a tired feeling. Not wanting to talk to anyone, not wanting to do anything. But, most of them can be remedied by just starting to do something. Something that you like to do.
~ Unknown
Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
~ Lionel Shriver
She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take.
~ Unknown
Outside the elevator, time is going on, but inside, it's stopped for us because we've got our own schedule: kissing, giggling, probing, breathing, taking, wanting, hoping. Liking.
~ Unknown
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
~ C. S. Lewis
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
~ Horace
What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?
~ Donald Miller
Probably what is wanting, the first time, is not comprehension but memory.
~ Marcel Proust
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…
~ Mary MacLane
How much extra happiness am I acquiring? Why am I wanting so much more than I need? Wouldn't I be happier learning to appreciate what I already have?
~ Matt Haig