Wanting What You Can T Have Quotes

“The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of higher origins will know instinctively that life on earth is a series of chances, moments and concepts. That’s really all that you have. So when you find one of these things and it makes you burn, or it makes you feel peace inside, or it makes you look forwards and backwards and here all at the same time— that’s when you know to hold onto it. And you hold onto it with every fiber of your being. Because it’s in the holding on of these chances and moments and concepts that life is lived. Every other kind of living is only in vitro. I don’t care what psychologists say today about how the human mind works. Because one day they will reach this pinnacle and they will see what I see and they will look upon the old ways as primitive. As long and gone. We do not wish to have what we can’t have. We wish to burn in whatever flame we have stepped into.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“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

“Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

“But here’s the sorry truth — if you really don’t want a thing, you don’t have to keep telling yourself so.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds