Quotes about want
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“I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.
On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically…
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Thinking, Dead

“And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly.
"Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.”

Julia Golding (1969) British fiction writer

Source: Dragonfly

“I want to have your abortion.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.”

Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

God

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Love, Way

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

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

Music

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

E.M. Forster book Aspects of the Novel

Source: Commonplace Book (1985), p. 11
Source: Aspects of the Novel

Books, Time, Reading

“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken… a useless thing. Then make an offer.”

Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

People

“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

People, Game

“Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

“If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Learning

“Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Animals, Dead

“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

Education, Hurt

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

Jay McInerney (1955) American writer

Thinking

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

People, World

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Thinking, Change, Wise

“Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

Tree, Christmas, Dead

“If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Peace

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Love, Heart

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”

Dan Gutman (1954) American children's writer

Source: The Genius Files #4: From Texas with Love

Thinking, Time

“I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: Lush

Idea, Sleep, Sun

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
Context: All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.

“If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“The heart wants what it wants.”

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

Heart

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”

Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

Truth, Change, Past

“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”

Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

Sleep, Waiting, Past, Forgetting

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer

Source: Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games and Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in an Unbalanced World

Children

“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

People

“Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Mourns

Hostility, Personality

“If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.”

David Farland book The Courtship of Princess Leia

Source: The Courtship of Princess Leia

Light

“And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying.
But that wasn’t fair.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Feeling, Lovers, Parting

“I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don’t want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Truth, Soul, Thinking

“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Peace, Hope

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Cheaters

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

Love, Time

“Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
Source: The Lost Hero

Happiness, World

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Heart, Baby

“I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Study

“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Question

“You want me here. (Artemis)
Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Parent, Time

“I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

Life, Thinking

“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Hate, Beauty, Girl

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Happiness, Success, For women, Success

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Waiting

“Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Life

“Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Baby

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Love

“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.”

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

Source: Now We Are Six

“I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.”

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

“I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

Way, Affliction

“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Love, People, Sense, Silence

“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Life, Thinking

“We are only as blind as we want to be.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Men, Dogs, Horse

“Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears."

"I'm not the one talking."

Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me."

"You want me stupid?"

"Nick….”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Life, Stupidity

“Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

People, Problem

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.
- Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Thinking

“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.”

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

Life, Feeling

“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Way, Girl

“What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Feeling

“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

About her documentary I Am Because We Are http://www.youtube.com/user/iambecauseweare

Love, Color

“I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Reading, Heart, Tattoo

“If I stay, they'll kill me… If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Personality, Dead

“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
Context: I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that He has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

God, People, Spring, Appearance