„I been by myself for a long time I just wish that I could know if I was on your mind Runnin' out of time I just wish that I could know if you were by my side On the day I die, would you even cry?“

„I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street
Zdroj: Lyrics, 1962-1985

„Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black,
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

"Trouble Every Day".
Freak Out! (1966)
Varianta: Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

„I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.“

—  James Patterson, kniha Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Zdroj: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

„You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Angel

Zdroj: Clockwork Angel

„I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Prince

Zdroj: Clockwork Prince

„I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.“

—  Jenny Han, kniha To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Zdroj: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

„"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."
"I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

Clary and Jace, pg.449
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„"You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you."
You do. You live in my head all the time.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 354
Varianta: You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.
Zdroj: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.“

—  Julie Anne Peters, kniha Keeping You a Secret

Zdroj: Keeping You a Secret

„Just yesterday morning, they let me know that you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song,
I just can't remember who to send it to. I've seen fire and I've seen rain.
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.
But I always thought that I'd see you again.“

—  James Taylor American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1948

"Fire and Rain" · Live performance (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIo4lEpsPY
Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)

„How long has it been since you did Absolutely Nothing? I know exactly how long it's been for me. I know how long it's been since I had every need met choicelessly from someplace outside me, without my having to ask or even acknowledge that I needed. And that time I was floating, too, and the fluid was salty, and warm but not too-, and if I was conscious at all I'm sure I felt dreadless, and was having a really good time, and would have sent postcards to everyone wishing they were here.“

—  David Foster Wallace, kniha A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays

„I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would."
"Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.“

—  Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

Zdroj: Blood Promise

„It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams…but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended.“

—  Marion Zimmer Bradley, kniha The Mists of Avalon

Morgaine
The Mists of Avalon (1983)

„Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!“

—  Drew Barrymore American actress, director and producer 1975

„I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so nice to unwind and just look at other things and get out of yourself. It's hard to detach myself from myself without neglecting myself. You know what I mean? I don't want to get in to the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not really that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on.“

—  River Phoenix American actor, musician, and activist 1970 - 1993

Sky Magazine (1988)

„Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.“

—  Max Beckmann German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer 1884 - 1950

Quote from Beckmann's letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, first World war, 1915; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 14
Quote of Max Beckmann, one from a series of letters he wrote to his wife Minna Beckmann-Tube, being medic soldier at the front of World War 1.
1900s - 1920s

„Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.“

—  Patricia Briggs, kniha Frost Burned

Zdroj: Frost Burned

„There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.“

—  Terry Pratchett, kniha I Shall Wear Midnight

Zdroj: I Shall Wear Midnight

„If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time“

—  William Faulkner, kniha As I Lay Dying

Zdroj: As I Lay Dying