Unfulfilled Longings Quotes

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

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

I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.