Arthur Golden Quotes

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

You always want what you can’t have.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.

It's really difficult for me to watch when I'm unable to play myself.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

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

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

There's no possible way you can get what you want.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.