Quotes about want
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“Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.

Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

World, Feeling

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Thinking, Chance, Hurt

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Marilyn: Her Life In Own Words

World, For women

“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Love, Feeling, Parting

“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Universe, Help, Personality

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Fools, Thinking, Fight

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Life, Reality, Waiting

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

Feeling

“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Hope, Lying, Problem, Personality

“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Fools, Art, Thinking

“I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"

"You are free. You just don't know it yet”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Life

“You want the fairy tale."
"I want a chance at it.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: I'm In No Mood For Love

Chance

“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

Feeling

“Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Law

“Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

God

“They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss, p. 389
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

Personality

“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Time

“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Love, Hate, Envy

“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.”

Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles

"It Don't Come Easy" (co-written by George Harrison)

Singing

“We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you."
I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
I let go”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Sadness, Smile, Dead

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

Heart

“The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic…”

Cressida Cowell book How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Source: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

“Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Strong

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Evil

“Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Sister

“Yeah, but I don’t want to be in pain, and I definitely don’t want to suffer.” – Nick
“Well…The only way to avoid them is to die.” – Death
“Okay, let’s change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken.” – Nick”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Death, Pain, Way, Suffering

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

People, Boy, Fight, Country

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Way, Feeling, Joy

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Truth, Art, Reading

“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

Source: Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

Love

“A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.”

Beryl Markham book West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

Travel, Idea, Change

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 4
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

World, Understanding

“Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else’s drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don’t get what you want.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Dance

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

Jackie Collins (1937–2015) British-American novelist and writer

“Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.”

Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer

Source: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”

Sheryl Crow (1962) American musician and actress

Happiness

“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

That Sort of Bear.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)

Happiness

“As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“Nix: We're not leaving without her. So unless you want permanent houseguests of the destructive sort, just hand her over.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

“Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you.
I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I’d be all right. Do you get what I’m saying?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Family, Home

“The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

People

“I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Thinking

“In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

Love, Beauty, Hope, Water

“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn’t want to be late.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I just want a hot cup of coffee, black, and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Coffee

“I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Hope, Heart, Dead

“You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Coffee

“.

In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Faith, Idea, Personality

“She wants to learn how to handle a gun.

Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Witness

Learning

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

World, Home, Change, Chance

“I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."

I feel so wanted. Thanks.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Feeling

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”

Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Forgetting

“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?”

Megan Abbott book The Fever

Source: The Fever

Time, Personality

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Fear, Beauty

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

Source: The Most Dangerous Thing

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Happiness, Dead

“Tell him to leave me alone, Astrid. Else I’ll have to barbecue him and make akri angry at me. I don’t want to make akri angry. (Simi)
Simi? Is that you? (Astrid)
Yes. C’est moi. The little demon with hornays. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”

Ken Follett book World Without End

Source: World Without End

Dance

“People see what they want to see when they need to.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

People

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Life, Way

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Feeling, Hurt, Relationship

“… science fiction is something thathappen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something thathappen - though often you only wish that it could.”

Arthur C. Clarke book The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

Source: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

Science

“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“We have in fact only two certainties in this world—that we are not everything and that we will die. To be conscious of not being everything, as one is of being mortal, is nothing. But if we are without a narcotic, an unbreathable void reveals itself. I wanted to be everything, so that falling into this void, I might summon my courage and say to myself: “I am ashamed of having wanted to be everything, for I see now that it was to sleep.” From that moment begins a singular experience. The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy coexist.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. xxxii

World, Courage, Sleep

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) Hungarian Swiss writer

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Home, Fight

“So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life

“Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”

Hisham Matar book In the Country of Men

Source: In the Country of Men

Love

“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Life

“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

People, Girl

“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Learning

“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

Personality

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, World, Learning

“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

God, Personality

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

2008-11-11
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Source: The Christmas Sweater

Happiness, Problem, Thinking, Time

“He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Smile, Help

“People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world… But you have to do what's right for you.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Fly Away Home

People, World, Way

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Feeling, Night

“So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

People, Thinking

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Men

“In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

God

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Feeling, Thinking

“It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Beauty

“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat)
I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself then. (Kish)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

Love, Forgiveness, Madness

“Now Everybody has some secret goals in life… Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Life, Secret, Time

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

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

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Love, God, Help

“You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband.”

“That was because of Merripen,” Win admitted. “He was all I ever wanted.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Dreams, Boy, Future

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Quotes about want
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