F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

I want to be wherever you are.

Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.

I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

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.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.