Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak… — Neil Gaiman
But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a… — Libba Bray
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all… — Anne Rice
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling… — Margaret Haddix
You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But… — Michael Ende
I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the… — Charles Bukowski
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too. — Madonna Ciccone
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come… — Alice Hoffman
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is… — Ayn Rand
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he… — Alexandre Dumas
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the… — Sarah Dessen
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence... — Marcel Proust
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. — William Blake
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so… — Tim O'Brien
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as… — Charlotte Bronte
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
I wished to be loved by another,' [Éowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity. — J.R.R. Tolkien
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. — Neil Gaiman
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for… — Jodi Picoult

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