Unsatisfied Longings Quotes

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

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

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.