Bette Davis Quotes

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

You always want what you can’t have.

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.

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

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!

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

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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

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

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

If you desire, you are restless.

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

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

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.