what is the word for "wanting something that you can't have"?
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Envy\nA person  envies something that belongs to someone else and to which he has no right or claim.
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I think really it's only human to want the things we can't have. The ones who love us the most only want the best for us which means putting up with the bad things as in not being able to go out, a crappy curfew, etc. So we end up hating them for a while but in the end they only wanted the best for you. The ones who hate us, they let you do whatever you want to you tend to like that freedom.
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Have one\n\nDon't share it\n\nNot afraid just private with my life\n\nStop being so nosey.
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Anything you want?  \n\nI'm confused.
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You've got a simple case of wanting what you can't have!  You don't really want him; you just want him to want you.  Once you realize that's your problem, you can move on and have a healthy relationship with someone worthy of you.
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Well confucious say you can't always get what you want.\n\nbut if you ask nicely......\nnah still NO
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lots of things...\n\n\nWhat one does not wish for oneself, one ought not to do to anyone else; what one recognises as desirable for oneself, one ought to be willing to grant to others
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nice isn't it to bad you can't have it
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It's because they know they can't have you, most people want things more when they know they can't have them
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something you don't want to do!
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That your expectations go beyond what may be realized. You may get a portion of what you want, the cake, but being able to eat it is desiring too much or more than may be reasonably expected. Literally, if you are given a cake, you want it. If you eat it, it is gone, but you still want it.\nYou cannot HAVE your cake and eat it TOO.\nhttp://ask.yahoo.com/20060511.html\n\nHere are examples, though perhaps not the best:\nYou love the garden, you want it year round.\nYou like being 23 years old (or whatever)\nYou love two women and want to marry them.\n\nI think Tony P's notation of being mutually exclusive is the most concise description.
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looking for something we crave or are missing
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Disappointment: Recently finding out my one and only chance of having a child is not going to happen.\n\nGreatest Luck: Making a wish to go to Italy without knowing it would happen a year later.
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something you can't see, cant feel and can't ignore.\nworst of all, you can't turn back.
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You can want something and not actually need it.
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It is "You CAN'T have your cake and eat it, too."\n\nOnce you eat the cake, you do not have it anymore.\n\nIt means you can't have it both ways at once.
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I cant tell you why you want something