Unfulfilled Wishes Quotes

I've been wanting to cut my hair now for at least a year. I've often fantasized about it but I haven't been able to do it because of the contracts that I've had.

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

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

I have always told my family that I don't want my birthday to be celebrated and that they shouldn't get me anything, even though if they didn't I'd probably write a standup routine about it.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

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.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

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

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.