“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”— John Updike, amazon.com
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”— Epicurus, amazon.com
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”— Rita Hayworth, huffingtonpost.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”— Langston Hughes, amazon.com
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“And every time I try to fly I fall without my wings. I feel so small. I guess I need you baby.”— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com
“As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other des…”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com