Quotes about want

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“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.”
He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded.
“See? It hurts people.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

“You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.

From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

“Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love.”

Carl Sandburg book Chicago Poems

“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”

Delia Ephron (1944) American writer and film producer

“I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”

Arthur Miller All My Sons

“Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to."
~Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

“I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.
In that case, I’m not only your enemy, I’m your nightmare.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”

Robert Frank (1924–2019) American photographer and filmmaker

“And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

“It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929–1990) Spanish poet

“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

“Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”

Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

“Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.”

P. C. Cast book Marked

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

Aminatta Forna (1964) Aminatta Forna, British author of ''The Devil that Danced on the Water'', ''Ancestor Stones'' and ''The Memory o…

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

Sarah Waters book Fingersmith

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better…”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

“They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

“And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.”

Sarah Waters book Fingersmith

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”

Virginia Woolf book The Voyage Out

“And when you're alone there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

“She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

“God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.”

Nancy Leigh DeMoss (1958) American radio host

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget… So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

“… for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Donna Tartt book The Little Friend

“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things, then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Gay Science

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
"But I don't want anything else in the world.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer

“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

“Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha."
"I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

John Ruskin book The Stones of Venice

“A visiting pastor at our church in Plains once told a story about a priest from New Orleans. Father Flanagan’s parish lay in the central part of the city, close to many taverns. One night he was walking down the street and saw a drunk thrown out of a pub. The man landed in the gutter, and Father Flanagan quickly recognized him as one of his parishioners, a fellow named Mike. Father Flanagan shook the dazed man and said, “Mike!” Mike opened his eyes and Father Flanagan said, “You’re in trouble. If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me what it is.ℍ “Well, Father,” Mike replied, “I hope you’ll pray for me.” “Yes,” the priest answered, “I’ll pray for you right now.” He knelt down in the gutter and prayed, “Father, please have mercy on this drunken man.ℍ At this, a startled Mike woke up fully and said, “Father, please don’t tell God I’m drunk.ℍ Sometimes we don’t feel much of a personal relationship between God and ourselves, as though we have a secret life full of failures and sins that God knows nothing about. We want to involve God only when we plan to give thanks or when we’re in trouble and need help. But the rest of our lives, we’d rather keep to ourselves.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

“I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

“If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad