Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet… — Charlotte Bronte
When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,… — Alexandre Dumas
The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I… — Janet Fitch
He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller. — Anne Tyler
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… — Khalil Gibran
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I… — Amy Tan
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones… — Alice Hoffman
Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for… — Cecelia Ahern
I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone… — Gail Carson Levine
She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary… — Francesca Lia Block
I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest,… — Elizabeth Scott
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you… — Susanna Kaysen
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in… — Carson McCullers
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey… — Thomas Hardy
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.… — Ray Bradbury
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix
I think I wished for you all of my life. — Cecelia Ahern
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be… — Jane Austen
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I… — Paul Theroux

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