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Wish Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid…
- Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every…
- You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you…
- He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such…
- Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was…
- What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less…
- He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with…
- My words are the kisses I wish Id said, but they say kisses dont last, and words are never dead.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius