184 Quotes About Wanting

If I tell my bones they’re a cagemaybe they’ll keep thissnarling heart contained.

Karma means always wanting more of what won't get you anywhere in the first place.

I don't want anything. I simply don't want.

If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa," he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

Essex was just a shadow in the room, the shadow of a thing I wanted, which was itself a shadow of wanting. But it was unspeakably sweet to feel even that, and terrifying to know how quickly it would pass. A moment inscribed on water, a memory that would fade to grey. I was nothing but a ghost hunter, chasing the wraith of the man I used to be. A beachcomber of my own detritus.

She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did.