Quotes About Wishing

She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow. I would do anything to make this go away. I miss her terribly. I have to stop writing now because I am too sad.

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

right now." If he had been anybody else I might have hugged him just then, but we were English and he had once been my boss of sorts, so we simply smiled awkwardly at each other. And possibly wished we were somewhere else.

Quiero decírselo. Quiero decirle qué no sé que es lo que siento. Le deseo pero me da miedo desearle. No quiero que mi felicidad dependa enteramente de otra persona, ser rehén de destinos que no puedo controlar.

Wishing for a fantasy life is easier than the pursuit of real goals.

Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?

I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

I miss out on tons of stuff.

Er wuenschte sich eine Falltuer herbei, durch die er nach unten stuerzen duerfte - fort von der unwirklichen Realitaet in ein schwarzes Loch des Vergessens. Doch so etwas geschah nur in Traeumen.

No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever wishing to drink the blood from his severed head.

But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

Because Christmas did something to the world at large and to individuals in particular. It crystallized all your hopes and fears. It made you yearn and wish and dream. And no matter how hard you tried—it made you realize all the things you were missing in life.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

I am sorry all the same, she said. And that it rained this afternoon. I could have wished that today would be perfect.

Sacrifice was the duty only of the few, who were of course hypocritically lauded by the many, the latter barely pausing in their infantile partying to wish the soldiers good luck at war.