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Quotes About Wish

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.
~ Daniel Handler
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
~ Guy Debord
By Hades, I wish Goodreads.com would make it mandatory to cite the literary source in quotes.
~ Aeschylus
at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
~ Alain de Botton
An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.
~ Alain de Botton
He entertains a confused wish to help her, without, however, understanding that help can be a challenging gift to deliver to those who are most in need of it.
~ Alain de Botton
She would have given anything, any number of days of her life, just to hear Sarah call her "Little Miss Shoe.
~ Alan Brennert
Poe readied himself. The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.
~ Alan Moore
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
~ Derrick Jensen
If we wish to truly experience a life that makes an eternal difference, the power within us is not enough. It is the power God offers that matters.
~ Dillon Burroughs
the future doesn't care what you wish.
~ Dirk Wittenborn
Robin told only a little of her life, but she kept repeating in one way or another her wish for a home, as if she were afraid she would be lost again, as if she were aware, without conscious knowledge, that she belonged to Nora, and that if Nora did not make it permanent by her own strength, she would forget.
~ Djuna Barnes
The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
~ Dodie Smith
Nothing in this world like permanent....but "permanent" word itself a wish of our heart....sometimes fulfilled & sometimes not....
~ Dolasankar Sahu
Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.
~ Donald Antrim
Encyclopedia wished there were a yoga exercise Caswell could do with his mouth—such as shut it.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
~ Man Ray
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
~ Ryan McGinley
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.
~ Jennifer Niven
I wish I could rip the star off (carefully, stitch by stitch, so as not to ruin my lovely coat), because yellow is meant to be a happy color, not the color of hate.
~ Jennifer Roy
And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop yourself from dreaming.
~ Jenny Han
I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.
~ Jenny Han
I always wanted a dog with a bangs
~ Jenny Han