Quotes About Wish

The human heart is a theater of longing.

Is it always like this? Tayla asked. My job? Yes This is my first week on the job, I said. So, so far? Yes. How do you feel about that? Like I wish I had decided to be the typical rich kid and been a sponge on my parents, I said. You don't really mean that, Tayla said. No, I said. But at the moment I really want to feel like I did.

This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off; wishing for her to mellow out was like wishing an alpha predator would switch to grains. It was missing the point.

For if ever any man were deeply and unconsciously sure that his future would be no better than his past, he might deeply wish to cease to live.

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. Lord! I wish I could go.

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. [...] Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Every fear hides a wish.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.