Unfulfilled Wants Quotes

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

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.

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.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

I had a question asked of me the other day, and this is asked of me a lot, surprisingly. 'Is there anything you want that you can't have?' And I said, 'Of course! What kind of question is this? Of course there is.' There's any number of things that I would like to have that I either can't afford or it doesn't make sense to buy. You know, I'd love to have world peace.

We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.