Wanting Something Quotes

“You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.”
― Alessandra Hazard, Straight Boy

“The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a deep lake and I didn't know how to swim, I would become highly motivated in an instant. Climbing from the lake would mean more to me than anything else in the world. My effort would be no less than astounding and I would suddenly become one of the most excited and enthusiastic persons imaginable.”
― Steve Goodier

“Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It was also bitterly true that a person who doesn’t want you is twice as desirable.”
― Eloisa James, Desperate Duchesses

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“You don't get what you want, you get what you can”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You can get what you want in life.
You must reach out with all your heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I thought the shame of self-hatred, or hopeless aspiration, should be concealed. Even more crass than wanting something so badly was acknowledging it out loud.”
― Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not deserve the object of your desire but can only hope for a miracle. You must expect that object instead, and it will be yours. There is no such thing as a miracle.”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

“There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard?”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Despair, self-doubt, and desire cripple human beings.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You don’t get what you want; you get what you deserve.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Every Time your lips touch mine the spark ignites anew, my want for more of you...”
― Daleen Van Tonder

“the things we don’t have exist in our imagination, where they are perfect”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Young Jane Young

“You will know those who love you, when you are in need.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“But I just smile. Because I know now that none of us know what we want. Not until we know that we live and breathe and have our being in a web of others’ wanting.”
― Sondra Charbadze, The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language