Wanted

Famous quotes containing the word wanted:

“They were steps for me, and I climbed up over them—to do so I needed to go on past them. But they supposed I wanted to settle down on them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“Thief!
how did you crawl into,
crawl down alone
into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,
the death we said we both outgrew....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)