Top 100 The Wish Quotes
#2. You are the call and I am the answer,
You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,
You are the night, and I the day.
What else? It is perfect enough.
It is perfectly complete.
You and I,
What more - ?
Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!
D.H. Lawrence
#4. To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.
Roman Payne
#6. Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur..
Guy Finley
#8. Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.
Shirley Hazzard
#9. As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian
#10. In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. "Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor" is an old and true saying of Petronius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.
Aristotle.
#13. I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
Douglas Hyde
#14. There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#15. Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Alan Moore
#16. There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.
George William Curtis
#17. Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.
P.L. Travers
#18. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
#19. The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.
Immanuel Kant
#20. The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Theodor W. Adorno
#22. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
Carolyn Wells
#23. Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.
Peace Pilgrim
#24. Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.
Neville Goddard
#25. There was no instinct to pretend - there was only the wish to protect the girl I knew I would love forever.
Jay Crownover
#26. I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.
Leymah Gbowee
#27. In nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
Elizabeth Bowen
#28. Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them.
Thomas Nagel
#29. You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.
Rick Trevino
#30. All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
Antonio Machado
#31. It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
Zebulon Pike
#33. It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
Samuel Beckett
#34. One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#35. Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.
Carol Shields
#36. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.
Bertrand Russell
#37. Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
Caroline Knapp
#38. So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.
Sherwood Smith
#39. Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.
Hugh Lofting
#41. TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
Karl A. Menninger
#42. Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes ... she's wicked good.
Peter Travers
#43. There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
Kate Mosse
#44. The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski
#46. If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.
Destin Bays
#47. Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#48. One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#49. On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.
Lawren Leo
#50. For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. But the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.
Sigmund Freud
#52. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.
Tom Robbins
#53. One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expensive of logic.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#54. Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.
Dalai Lama
#55. I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#56. I find it funny how I effortlessly combine existential fear with the wish not to be embarrassed. I often think of poor Gregor Samsa first waking up as a bug. This
John Carpmael
#57. How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Toni Morrison
#58. Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.
Joseph Campbell
#59. The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. ...An individual, for example, who is afraid of blushing when he enters a large room and faces many people will actually be more prone to blush under these circumstances. In this context, one might amend the saying "The wish is father to the thought" to "The fear is mother of the event.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
Margaret Jones
#65. At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem
Later,it becomes indispensable
In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar
These are my thoughts and feelings on money
So I renounced both wealth and goods
Milarepa
#66. The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
Dalai Lama
#68. The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.
Natsuki Takaya
#69. The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#70. Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
Jacob Bronowski
#71. If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.
Jane Austen
#72. I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.
Carlos P. Romulo
#73. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.
Charles James Fox
#74. A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
Franz Kafka
#75. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
Maurice Allais
#76. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
Chad Harbach
#77. When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Helen Schucman
#78. Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that and showing what's actually going on. Or the wish fulfillment of probably most moms, which is really exciting. It's an area that's unexplored.
Kathryn Hahn
#80. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
Black Elk
#81. Murder - the wish to do murder - is something quite different. It - how shall I say? - it defies God.
Agatha Christie
#82. It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;
Arthur Schopenhauer
#83. Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.
Agatha Christie
#84. Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis
#85. The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Sigmund Freud
#86. I wish I could play fiddle by firelight.
That last one had been the wish of a guy named Nero. Just went to show that you had to be careful what you wished for.
Kiernan Kelly
#87. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.
C. Nzingha Smith
#88. Briefly, Scarlett let herself imagine what it would be like to go to Legend's private isle, to play the game and win the wish. Freedom. Choices. Wonder. Magic.
Stephanie Garber
#89. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.
Keshub Chandra Sen
#90. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
Dalai Lama
#91. We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.
Yoko Ono
#92. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.
C.J. Carlyon
#94. Passion is different from interest. Those who are just interested in things have the "wish", but passionate people have the "will".
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
Ovid
#97. Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.
Charles Simmons
#98. He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.
Carol Shields
#99. Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
Carl Jung
#100. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.
CLAMP
