249 quotes found
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”
“Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...”
“you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves”
“The hardest thing about being wanted was the hardest thing about wanting—wanting badly enough that it gave you stomachache, wanting in a way that was partly about kissing and partly about swallowin...”
“But we don’t think too well when we want too much.”
“But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. Bu...”
“Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.”
“How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!”
“I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.”
