#unfulfilled

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy. ↗

— Robert Browning

#unfulfilled #life

I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was. "Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you." That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked. "Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#unfulfilled #wishes #life

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#different #discover #live #needs #ourselves

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desires #destiny #feeling #gives #mission

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. ↗

— John Hurt

#because #been #difficult #i #kind

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#decision #educational #envisioned #equal #opportunity

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#concern #consult #dreams #failed #fears

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#frontier #hopes #new #opportunities #perils

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dreams #dying #lost #unfulfilled #unhappy

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

— Honore de Balzac

#drains #entire #existence #man #unfulfilled