Wish Quotes

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you’re on the red carpet, it’s like, ‘Here’s Tom Hardy.’ I don’t want to be me. That’s why I play other people.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.[Wünschen ist nicht tun. Aber, Wollen ist tun.]

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

We cannot wish for that we know not.[On ne peut désirer ce qu’on ne connaît pas.]

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.[Der Wunsch geht dem Ereignis voran, der Wille begleitet es.]

The man who arrives young believes that he exercises his will because his star is shining. The man who only asserts himself at thirty has a balanced idea of what will power and fate have each contributed, the one who gets there at forty is liable to put the emphasis on will alone.

Reflect also on this most undoubted truth, that we cannot do all we wish. We often think that such and such a thing would be very good, and another equally bad and evil, and yet if these things came to pass, we should sometimes learn that the very reverse was the case.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.