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20 Quotes That Capture The Agony Of Wanting Something You Can't Have

Because nothing is more attractive than the one thing you're denied. 
Heidi Priebe
June 22, 2016
“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. ”
— Andy Warhol, No Title
Tagged: Love, Sex, Lust, Passion, Falling In Love, Extroverted INtuition, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama, No Title
Tagged: Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Tagged: Desire, Paralysis, Decision-Making, Taking Risks, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski, Post Office
Tagged: Extremes, ENFP, ENTP, Having It All, Desire, Lust, Lust For Life, Living Fully, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Poetry, Kissing, Love, Lust, Destruction, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“Wanting was a wilderness.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Desire, Wanting, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”
— Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness
Tagged: Passion, Lust, Moving On, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor: A Novel
Tagged: Life, The Unknown, Uncertainty, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. 

I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Getting What You Want, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
— Any Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Wanting Something, Wanting Someone, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting. ”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Desire, Lust, Waiting, Waiting For Something, Waiting For Someone, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Desire, Wanting, Lust, Getting What You Want, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
— Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
Tagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Want, Desire, Lust, Tragedy, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”
— Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
Tagged: Wanting what you can't have, Desire, Lust, Want, Longing, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Lust, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.”
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy)
Tagged: Desire, Lust, Wanting what you can't have, Getting What You Want, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
— Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding And Yerma
Tagged: Desire, Passion, Lust, Wanting, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“The wanting comes in waves. ”
— The Decemberists, the Decemberists- the wanting comes in waves repaid - (8 of 17)
Tagged: Want, Desire, Lust, Passion, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
— Tessa Dare, A Lady Of Persuasian
Tagged: Desire, Passion, Longing, Smile, Wanting Someone You Can't Have