10 Quotes Tagged: wanting

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.

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.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

Always wanting another man than your own.

We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Hell to Heaven
Heaven to Hell
Please send
Devil or Angel
To love me now.

To Hell with Heaven
To Heaven with Hell.
Unless you send me somebody to love...the truth of you both I'm gonna tell.

Hell, a man can lie there and want something so bad and be so full of wanting it he just plain forgets what it is he wants. Just like when you are a boy and the sap first rises and you think you will go crazy some night wanting something and you want it so bad and get so near sick wanting it you near forget what it is.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.