“After we made love I knew it was over. Did I ever really love Big or was I addicted to the pain? The exquisite pain of wanting someone so unattainable?”— Ollie Levy, Michael Patrick King, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“You know, a curse isn’t a curse anymore when the afflicted wants it.”— Dana Horgan, Andrew Chambliss, Belle, Emilie de Ravin, imdb.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
“Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.”— Ernst Haas, ernst-haas.com
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I could have beer for breakfast my sanity for lunch trying to get over how bad I want you so much”— Rita Ora, youtube.com
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”— Federico García Lorca, amazon.com
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”— Lionel Shriver, amazon.com