“It wasn’t a death wish. It was a see-how-close-you-can-get-and-live wish.”

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”

“Blaine sometimes wished he lived in a culture where everything wasn’t everybody’s business.”

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

“I wish to go on living even after my death.”

“I… understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”

“I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here”

“You used to call me your dreamer,
And now I'm living out my dreams;
Oh, how I wish you could see,
Everything that's happening for me.”

“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”

“Some deaths a man can enjoy, the death of an enemy, and Sharpe was paid to have enemies. Yet he did not wish death on the French. There was more satisfaction in seeing a surrendered enemy, a defeated enemy, than in seeing a slaughtered enemy.”