Phyllis Bottome Quotes

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.

What you've never had, you never miss.

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

If you desire, you are restless.

My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have