Wish Quotes

Most popular wish quotes

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. - Aesop quote.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

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Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God.

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us—by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
A wish is fantastic; it knows what is the case but refuses to accept it.  All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am." - Wystan Auden quote.
A wish is fantastic; it knows what is the case but refuses to accept it.  All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
I've alwayd believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes. - Lawrence Durrell quote.
I've alwayd believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.  There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. - George Eliot quote.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.  There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
If  man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
If  man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Granting our wish one of Fates saddest jokes is! - James Russell Lowell quote.
Granting our wish one of Fates saddest jokes is!
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. - Cynthia Ozick quote.
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

proverbs

Wishes are the memories coming from our future! - Rainer Maria Rilke quote.
Wishes are the memories coming from our future!
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness. - Kurt Vonnegut quote.
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. - Edward Young quote.
Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone. - Robert Frost quote.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body—the wishbone.
Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

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