The best Quotes from The Magicians

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

I know I'm not worthy of you. But I just can't help loving you. It's like wanting to touch a star - you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep trying.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade. You thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow, stop your tears. There is something to calm you fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart. But I know he'll always be in your heart.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.