Mary Shelley Quotes

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

You can't always get what you want.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

I’d trade my soul for a wish.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.