Unattainable Desires Quotes

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

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

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

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.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

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

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Nobody smolders in real life.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.