Wish Quotes

Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again.

~ Akshay Vasu

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone.

~ Jean Rhys

Life is too short to be wishing for things that have been proven by many to be achievable.

~ Hafiz

Wishing is only for those who are very doubtful of their ability to transcend from all circumstances.

~ Hafiz

Those who constantly work on their positive desires, know nothing about wishing.

~ Hafiz

Never wish unto others what you wouldn't wish for yourself.

~ Hafiz

The habit of wishing is only for those who aren't hungry enough for success.

~ Hafiz

You haven't given your dream your all until it is no longer an unfulfilled wish in your life.

~ Hafiz

Wishing for something without tirelessly working for it, is like trying to drive a car that has no fuel in it.

~ Hafiz

I don't have the time to wish for the things that I positively desire in life because I am always busy working to attain them.

~ Hafiz

I only wish to read, think and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

~ Steven Redhead

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

~ Jacqueline Carey

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.- from Dimpellumpzki

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Star light, Star brightI wish upon the stars tonight…I whispered your name to a star last nightLoudly, and so boldI closed my eyes, and saw your faceI spoke those words untoldI wish I may, I wish I mightIt shouted from my soulHave this wish, I wish tonightThe wish that won’t let go

~ N'zuri Za Austin

And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

~ Sarah J. Maas

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

~ John Green

And what if you weren’t a jinni? What if you were free from their rules?”I stare at him. His jaw tightens, his eyes steely with determination that frightens me to my core. A cloud drifts across the face of the crescent moon, and the courtyard darkens. Here and there, the grass is still bent where Aladdin and I danced just hours earlier. I drop my gaze and glare at it, shaking from head to toe.“Don’t say it, Aladdin. Don’t you even think it.” Dread rises in me like a storm cloud, dark and menacing.Aladdin moves closer. He takes my hands. His skin is warm and crackling with energy, setting me on fire.“I have one wish left,” he murmurs. “And this one is for you.”“No, Aladdin! Don’t speak it. Don’t make the Forbidden Wish. The cost—”“Damn the cost. Zahra, I wish—”I stop him with a kiss.Because it is the first thing I think of to stop the terrible words. Because he fills me with light and hope and deep, deep fear. Because I have been longing to for days.

~ Jessica Khoury

My wish before I die, to keep the faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.

~ Magica Quartet

When you wish evil on your enemies, remember that you are also someone else's enemy. Matthew 5:44

~ Felix Wantang

So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please? Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.

~ Rachel Vincent

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

~ Cassandra Clare

Be what you wish to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I came to a most profound realization. For the first time in my life, I have complete control over what happens in the here and now. It is not a wish. It is not some concoction of false hope. It is reality in here and now.''HOPE- Season of Romance

~ Kaleb Kilton

You should have died when I killed you.

~ John Le Carré

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

~ Isabel Allende

When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.

~ Stephen Richards

I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt