“I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
I want to love, I want to pray,
I want to believe in good.”

“I want it all,
I want it all for myself.”

Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) Austrian writer

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”

Paulo Bitencourt (1966)

“I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

“I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer