Wanting Quotes

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be. (Brigitte Bardot)
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it. View quote
James Caan
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
Music is all about wanting to be better at it. View quote
Geddy Lee
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. View quote
Matthew Barney
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. (Antonio Porchia)
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. View quote
Les Brown
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. View quote
John Ruskin
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got. View quote
Sheryl Crow
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. View quote
John Fowles
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Dale Carnegie)
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. View quote
Guy Debord
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. View quote
Franz Kafka