Eric Hoffer Quotes

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

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

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

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

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

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

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

To want is to have a weakness.

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

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

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.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

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.

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.