184 Quotes About Wanting

He didn’t know what it was like, wanting something you could never have; how impossible it was to un-want it once you’d let the feeling in.

And that is the way it has always been," the queen mother said again. "And if something is the way it has always been, who are we to wish it otherwise? Who are we to want anything at all? Who are we to desire?""I desire," Ama said.

Have you ever hurt your heart wanting, wanting for years,asking why what happenedhappened, hoping beyond the last desire to feel hope—

What the cold light showed me was that my situation was simply unlivable. I wanted, with a desire greater than any desire which I had ever conceived could exist without instantly killing its owner by spontaneous combustion, something which I simply could not have.

Anna loves Ted, but she does not want him in a way that causes her to suffer; she does not want him desperately, despite herself. And it turns out that is how Ted has always wanted to be wanted: the way he has always wanted women. The way Anna wanted Marco, and he wanted Anna, and Rachel (or so it seems, in retrospect) wanted him.In the absence of this painful wanting, Ted has trouble getting hard.

He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her—his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light. She was smiling, her tears feeling fresh on her face. He smelled of sweat and roses. She felt it in the palms of her hands, in her loins. It was right. It was Southampton she had wanted all along.

He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.

You have to be smart to get what you want.

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.