Top 100 I Wish I Were Quotes
#1. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.
David Levithan
#2. I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.
Robin Wright
#3. I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.
Robert L. O'Connell
#4. It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'
Bindi Irwin
#5. I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
Ellen Hopkins
#6. Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.
Robert Benson
#7. I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
#9. I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time."
"But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?
Howard Barker
#11. I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
#12. I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.
Andy Ihnatko
#13. I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#14. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.
Carrie Underwood
#15. I wish I were in high school again so I could call him a butthole. Adults don't call their brothers buttholes, though.
Colleen Hoover
#16. I wish I were like Facebook; being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#18. Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.
Jerry Pinto
#20. I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.
William Steig
#22. Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. Seuss
#23. I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
Mario Cuomo
#24. I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.
Alan Ladd
#25. When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!
Lorenz Hart
#26. I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.
Julia L. Roberts
#27. I wish i were the rain that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle.
Tite Kubo
#29. You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.
Amy Poehler
#30. For how easy life must be for him. I wish I were bigger, stronger. Male. I wish I could make people stop worrying about me and my so called frailness.
Ally Carter
#31. Oh, the odious wench.How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch.I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy.
Patrick O'Brian
#32. He was a marvelous talker, a magical talker, and I wish I were able to give a better idea what he said, but it is impossible for a mediocre intellect to render the speech of a superior one
Donna Tartt
#33. I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.
Scott Adams
#34. I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back.
Jason Medina
#35. There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
Gena Showalter
#36. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
Algernon Blackwood
#38. I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."
Sandra Bernhard
#39. Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein
#40. But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!
Wolfgang Pauli
#43. I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.
David Archuleta
#44. I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war ... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
Imelda Marcos
#45. I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
Danielle Steel
#46. I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#47. I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
Damian Woetzel
#49. People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.
Dustin Pedroia
#50. I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
Rachel Zucker
#51. I wish I were really young, like you. Eight is, like, the best age."
"Really?"
"I don't know. To be honest, I don't remember being eight."
"That's good."
"Why?"
"I don't want to remember being eight either.
Julie Buxbaum
#52. What kind of sigh was that? Peril wondered. Was it an "I wish I were alone with Peril" sigh? Or a "worried about my students" sigh? Knowing Clay, it could also be a "we're all out of goats and I really wanted one" sigh.
Tui T. Sutherland
#53. I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
Clare Boothe Luce
#55. I wish ... I wish I were dead ... "
"And what use would that be to anyone?
J.K. Rowling
#58. Every night, no matter what has happened during the day, no matter if I am torn and bloodied or so bone-tired I wish I were dead, I look up at the stars and I give each star a brother's name or a sister's face. I will not sleep until I remember every one. The stars will burn out before I forget.
Cassandra Clare
#59. I'm 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5' 6. Everyone who meets me says, 'Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.'
Emma Roberts
#60. I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
Kurt Cobain
#61. Often I Wish I Were
a potato.
Eyes opened
in all directions.
Unafraid
of the cold earth.
The difference
between life and death
for somebody.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#62. I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson
#63. I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy.
Gretchen Rubin
#64. I wish I were brave enough to go after him. Maybe ask him to grab a coffee. Or dinner. Or brunch - wait, do people our age even have brunch?
Elle Kennedy
#65. I love pizza, meaning: Even when I'm in the middle of eating pizza, I wish I were eating pizza.
Jandy Nelson
#66. I wish I were
what I was
when I wanted to be
what I am today
Anonymous
#67. I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#68. Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say ... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles ... I'm in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee ... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.
John Muir
#69. I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.
Charles Bukowski
#70. Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
Melissa McCarthy
#71. I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.
C.S. Lewis
#72. I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
Leonard Cohen
#73. I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
Emily Bronte
#74. I glanced across at him, and we silently exchanged the I wish I were sitting next to you too look.
Rebecca Donovan
#75. I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.
A.A. Milne
#76. I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ... and laughing at injuries,not maddening under them!
Emily Bronte
#77. I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.
Sheryl Sandberg
#78. I wish I were the graceful sort. I was trained to be. "Never chase men or buses," my mother told me. "Another one will always come along." Still, I always run after the subway, and when men go, I follow.
Katie Crouch
#79. Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.
Fatih Akin
#80. If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.
Jack Canfield
#81. I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
Edward Norton
#82. Did I tell you what veal practice is? Oh! Veal practice involved me lying very still on the sofa trying as hard as I could to mimic the life of a veal. While eating veal. I wish I were kidding. It. Was. Magic.
Shonda Rhimes
#83. I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
Hillary Clinton
#84. Sometimes I wish I were someone else. Times like those I borrow somebody else's nametag. I make love like Todd. At least Today I do.
Jarod Kintz
#85. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Thornton Wilder
#86. Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
James Howe
#87. I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
Michael Vartan
#88. The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.'
The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'
Ivor Cutler
#89. I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.
Richard Matheson
#90. When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
Douglas Preston
#91. I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
George Seaton
#92. I wish I were not the me that I know, that I be some unfeeling hunk of plastic, designed to take all punishment but also durable and almost indestructible.
F. Sionil Jose
#93. I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
Kurt Cobain
#94. How I wish I were by the sea again.
This slack season the men must be painting
the hulls of the boats or sleeping the noon away.
I would not sleep if I were they.
Simeon Dumdum Jr.
#95. I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
Caitlyn Jenner
#96. And I'm so angry I wish I were dead.
Jonah
#97. And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.
Jandy Nelson
#98. Oh, how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I'd still have two of the same to live.
Emily Saliers
#99. I don't want to die, but at the same time, I wish I were dead.
Abi Ketner
#100. I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
Don Herold
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