Unfulfilled Quotes

“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
― Anthony Liccione

“When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. ("Taken for a ride")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Many often chicken out when they have to make crucial decisions as they don’t like dotting I’s, and, thus, never come to conclusive agreements either. Their chart remains an unfulfilled concept and their road map an empty aspiration. ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Intermingled in the mess was another, subtler secret ... we were happy, yet unfulfilled. It was possible, I understood now, to be both at the same time.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“Each life unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.”
― Robert Browning

“I wouldn't mind
if life left me...

wingless

burnt to cinders
ripped by storms
scattered...like weeds

celestially wounded

without cherry blossoms
to perish with

but I would cry
with head held in my hands
if it left me...

unfulfilled.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year;
never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The only difference between you and a dream is I haven’t woken up with you”
― johnj geddes

“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was.
"Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."
That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked.
"Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.”
― Orson Scott Card, Treason

“Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.”
― Diane Duane, Deep Wizardry

“It's never too late for love. If you're in a relationship that doesn't satisfy, start asking for what you want and need and just give them more love. Over time they will, they must, respond in one of two important ways. (1) They will leave you for they cannot rise to your higher call for love or (2) They will surprise! They will rise to your higher call. Either way you win. You get another chance to get it right.”
― Kate McGahan

“On each piece of paper I found addresses, telephone numbers, memos of various rendezvous made and kept—or perhaps not kept—people met and remembered, or perhaps not remembered, hopes probably not fulfilled: certainly not fulfilled, or I would not have been standing on that street corner.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“The insanity of it all is that the search for that which will fill us incessantly drives us to pursue the very things that will empty us. Yet, the greater insanity is to find ourselves utterly perishing in our emptiness and yet declaring to our dying day that the emptying was the filling. And that is emptiness of the most chilling sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Her love for men had always been somehow neurotic and unfulfilled.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“It's getting cold. Some of you will put on the jackets from the last season. Check your pockets. You might as well find a forgotten, unfulfilled wish”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I only remember the good days. I don't remember anything.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.”
― William A. Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

“It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn’t take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

“Instead of the church’s lessons helping women to participate in loving, mutual relationships, they perpetuate singleness and unfulfilled partnerships because the men in our lives desire confident women who are able to play with the possibilities of sexual engagement.”
― Candi Dugas, Who Told You That You Were Naked?

“We all thirst for recreation. Even a modest person occasionally needs to take a piquant break from work to renew their salty internal drive. What I cannot understand was why a diet of simply surviving, peppered with some lowbrow form of amusement, proved inadequate to satiate my deepest angst. Why do I crave meaning in life? Why do I hunger for some essential substance in life beyond sampling a banquet of consumer pleasures? My entrenched state of ignorance precludes me from describing what garnish is missing from an unfilled life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“At the bottom looking up, you wonder of the glory they can see; at the top looking down, you wonder of the birds they can hear singing near.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Often, unfulfilled promises by our loved ones can give us the worst feelings in the world.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel