Markus Zusak Quotes

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

Desire is important.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

All my life I have dreamed of you.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

Wanting and needing are two different things.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

Desire is the great equalizer.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.