Wish Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

— Leo Tolstoy

He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.

— James R. Silvestri

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,…

— Kiran Desai

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...

— Anonymous

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate…

— Gordon W. Allport

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

— Sherwood Anderson

“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes.…

— Ayn Rand

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

— Ken Follett

“He began to suffocate slowly in the more and more rarefied atmosphere of remoteness and solitude. For now it was his wish no longer,…

— Hermann Hesse

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber