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Quotes About Wish

He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.
~ V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams
Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead.
~ Girl234
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
~ William Morris
You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.
~ Evita Peron
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
~ Unknown
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
~ Napoleon Hill
Desire is proof of the availability.
~ Robert Collier
Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.
~ Rene Descartes
To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.
~ Joy Page
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
~ Helen Rowland
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
~ Ovid
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
~ Robert Browning
I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
~ Edward Heath
A wish is a desire without energy
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It's so much better to desire than to have.
~ Anouk Aimee
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
~ Zadie Smith
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
~ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We want more than there is.
~ Jonathan Goldstein
No one can have all he desires.
~ Seneca the Younger
Hope is merely another face of desire.
~ Christopher Moore
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl