Quotes about Unfulfilled

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I do not believe that either the preterist view of interpreting Revelation, which regards the book as almost entirely fulfilled, or the futurist view, which regards it as almost entirely unfulfilled, are to be implicitly followed. The truth, I expect, will be found to lie somewhere between the two.

Dangerous desires birthed inside our unsettled disappointments are nothing but a setup for a takedown.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

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.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.