Quotes About Wishing You Were Somewhere Else

#1. It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.

Robin LaFevers

#2. It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Suzanne Farrell

#3. Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together - make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

Jacqueline Woodson

#5. There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

Anthony Liccione

#6. There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

Meg Tilly

#7. That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Phil Collins

#8. All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else.

Paolo Giordano

#9. He remembered something else about those high school days wishing he could cut straight to that first kiss to get it out of the way. Partly to get rid of the suspense, knowing the moment was hours away. Partly because he just plain wanted to kiss her.

Sierra Donovan

#10. Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.

Amit Kalantri

#11. It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

John Dyer

#12. I can't go on like this. I'm not the guy who cheats on his girlfriend wishing all the time she was someone else."
Elation and fear washed over me in equal measure. "Cam, I ... "
"You want this. I know you do.

Samantha Young

#13. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This ... hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?

Steven Erikson

#14. Dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you

Urtear

#15. You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are - start there.

A.M. Homes

#16. I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

Diane Chamberlain

#18. What you wish for in life someone already has
what you already have, someone else needs
What you take for granted, someone else is wishing for

Steven Aitchison

#19. When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.

Elna Baker

#20. I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.

Philip Schultz

#21. I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Trent Reznor

#22. I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

Anthony Mason

#23. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.

Amanda Lovelace

#24. She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#25. I so envied the world around me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my own life too, but that didn't stop me from wishing I could close my eyes and slip into someone else's life. You know, explore the world with different eyes, a different heart.

Marilyn Grey

#26. I saw that he was looking anxious.
'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary?

Jennifer Paynter

#27. Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

Jack Johnson

#28. I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore

Michelle Hodkin

#29. Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Ray Bradbury

#30. Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

Sue Bender

#31. My entire life, I've been fascinated with stories. To everyone else, it seemed like the story itself was enough. But I wanted to know why someone told the story in the first place. Had something happened? Or were they only wishing for something to happen?

Amber Lough

#32. wishing my hair was longer and straighter, wishing my skin was lighter, wishing I was someone else, asking God to make me beautiful. These are things I beg my daughter not to inherit.

Key Ballah

#33. I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Jennifer Donnelly

#34. No, when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to ... to show the Capitol they don't own me.

Suzanne Collins

#35. You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

Philip Pullman

#36. This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.

Madonna Ciccone