Unattainable Desire Quotes

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!

Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can't have all of them for myself.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

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.

It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

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

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.