Quotes About Wish

do nae want ye to.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of deadly contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. A wish to prove that you need nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and becomes a searing need for the hunger itself.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Our promises we'll keep. Be the miracle you are, a wish come true on a shooting star. Sleep, baby, sleep.

Commonly, in Japan, the crane is regarded as a symbol of peace. But for us, in the Sasaki family, it is the embodiment of Sadako's life, and it is filled with her wish and hope.

People always desire that which they cannot have.

Ill show you a Sweet dream

Qué raro es que a veces deseas algo, como ver la nieve, y al día siguiente deseas que desparezca, ¿verdad?

Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.

I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it'.

Nora shook her head. Wishing it would fall off. Her own head. Onto the floor.

To want is to lack. That is what it means.

Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Every second of every day we are entering into a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. Death was something that scared me. And death only happens to people who have been living. There were infinitely more people who had never been alive. I wanted to be one of those people. That old classic wish. To never have been born. To have been one of the three hundred million sperm that hadn't made it.

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is

It was a kind of laugh that made me wish there was no air for those manic waves to travel on and reach my ears.

Ah," Sean said, smothering a laugh. "The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I'd seen that coming. Oh. Wait. I did.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Oh," every stair creaked faintly, "I ought to have been marble!

Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. (...) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a sort of fairy-tale quality to real life. They remind the teller and the listener of the magic that can be found in the mundane if you pay close attention.

Tolstoy said about Ivan Ilyich: "What he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it.