Nora Roberts Quotes

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

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

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Losing hurts me.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.