Wish Quotes

Quotes tagged as "wish" Showing 211-240 of 613
“Blessings are waiting, so don't miss the flight
Your Birth Day Gonna be very shiny bright
Look everywhere and adore every single sight
May your BirThDay be filled with chocolates, Cakes & Candle Light
May the happiness hugs you like soo tight
Take me serious, because I am gentle and polite”
SiD

J.D. Salinger
“I felt so damn happy all of sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Catherine Ryan Hyde
“After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.”
Catherine Ryan Hyde, Have You Seen Luis Velez?

André Aciman
“I thought for a few seconds. “I can’t think of a wish.”

“Some life,” she said, meaning either that my life was so enviably put together that there was nothing left to wish for—or that it was so hopelessly bereft of joy that wishing something was a luxury no longer worth considering.”
André Aciman, Find Me
tags: life, wish

Haruki Murakami
“Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really know what life is all about. I don’t know how it works”
Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños
tags: wish

Haruki Murakami
“She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,” she said. “What would you have wished for if you had been in my position?”
“On the night of my twentieth birthday, you mean?”
“Uh-huh.”
I took some time to think about that, but I couldn’t come up with a single wish.
“I can’t think of anything,” I confessed. “I’m too far away now from my twentieth birthday.”
“You really can’t think of anything?”
I nodded.
“Not one thing?”
“Not one thing.”
She looked into my eyes again—straight in—and said, “That’s because you’ve already made your wish.”
Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños

“I wish that I could find a girl just like my momma.”
Jordan Hoechlin

Kathryn Davis
“Insomnia is the wish to be immortal, granted by an ass.”
Kathryn Davis, Hell

Gunnar Ekelöf
“I wish nothing more.
I wish myself far far away.”
Gunnar Ekelöf
tags: wish

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Sometimes you stay bottled up because you know the responsibility’s in your hands, rubbing you like a lamp, and you’re the only genie that can and must rise and expand in order to grant your every wish.”
Curtis Tyrone Jones

Aspen Matis
“Seamless like a fall leaf changing color, my will switched powerfully.”
Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

Richie Norton
“The Joneses don’t deserve your attention.⁣⁣”
Richie Norton

Richie Norton
“Stop wishing and worrying and start waking up.⁣”
Richie Norton

Natsuri Ayuko
“I'm carrying your memory like a half-forgotten wish.”
Natsuri Ayuko (Aicka), Black Equation - The Deceived Ones

“To do nothing evil is good, but to wish nothing evil is better.”
Claudius

Simone Weil
“You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost.”
Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“every dream becomes a wish
when called by its name
and every wish has a chance
to be fulfilled”
Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I don’t know if anyone really believes that they’re invincible. Rather, I think that it’s a wish that’s been mistaken for a fact.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steven Redhead
“You get what you wish for, but you may not recognize it”
Steven Redhead, Life's Impressions

“Prestige was gift that God put & throw some legends back.”
Abdirahman Habane

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Just as Geppetto persisted in his false wish to make his created toy into a real boy, even so you must persist with Pinocchio’s nose and courage in the belly of the fish, until the fairy of the universe waves her wand, enchants your dreams and gives genuine life to your every wish.”
Curtis Tyrone Jones, Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life

“Shooting stars ignite a spark within a human’s soul.” He spins around in front of us. “When a person wishes for something, we give them the urgency to act to make their wish come true. You, Luna, lit your own spark. You don’t need me.”
Meg Cannistra, The Trouble with Shooting Stars
tags: wish

Steven Magee
“If you apply for Workers Compensation for occupational disease, I wish you the best of luck...as you are really going to need it!”
Steven Magee

“Waiting is a wishful prayer!”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Let your want inspire you to work.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“If thy wish for your soul to prosper pray fervently in the spirit.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Nitya Prakash
“People will love you. People will hate you. Others will secretly wish to be you.”
Nitya Prakash

“If you wish to repent, repent.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you wish to be good, be good.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is time for a want, there is a time for a wish.”
Lailah Gifty Akita