
“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”
“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”
“I have no wish to believe on that subject.”
Last words (June 1809), as quoted in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man https://books.google.com/books?id=0SKFXdyu8NoC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=%22POPISH+STUFF%22+PAINE&source=bl&ots=zo5gRksBtU&sig=RY-gWE_UoreJyKW2iUdTSkuDVQg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHi9W1mcrLAhWFnYMKHYMsCfQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22POPISH%20STUFF%22%20PAINE&f=false, by Christopher Hitchens, p. 140
1800s
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.”
Source: Off the Page
“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”
Source: This Side of Paradise
Cagliostro: the Splendour And Misery of a Master of Magic by W.R.H. Trowbridge, (William Rutherford Hayes), (August 1910) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trowbridge%2c%20W%2e%20R%2e%20H%2e%20%28William%20Rutherford%20Hayes%29%2c%201866%2d1938