“What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.”
Source: The Bridges
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Tarjei Vesaas 3
Norwegian poet 1897–1970Related quotes
"All You Wanted"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Context: I wanted, to be like you. I wanted, everything. So, I tried. To be like you, and I got swept away. I didn't know that it was so cold and, you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand and we figured out, that when the time comes? I'd take you away. If you want to? I can save you; I can take you away from here. So lonely inside; so busy out there. And all you wanted, was somebody who cares.
“You pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.”
"Noblesse Oblige"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)
Context: I showed you how to touch a star
I helped you forget who you are
Baby, you can drive my car
Over to the right side of the tracksYou pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.
"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the.”
Source: Drawing Out The Dragons: A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications