Quotes About Wistful

Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

Ever rising like the souls of the damned seeking salvation," Ariah said to Dirk Burnaby, in one of her rare moments of noticing him. Her fixed, wistful smile made him shudder.)

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

He said, and there was a wistful note in his voice: 'It is true that your moustache is superb…Tell me, do you use for it a special pomade?' 'Pomade? Good lord, no!' 'What do you use?' 'Use? Nothing at all. It—it just grows.' Poirot sighed.

How explain to Megan the impulse that had come over me? - She had looked like a wistful dog being left behind. She now had on her face the incredulous pleasure of the dog who has been taken on the walk after all.

Maybe in another life, I wanna be Aaron Judge.

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors

More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back

The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.

There's something romantic about me,' he added reflectively. 'I'm an adventurer manqué: born out of my time.

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Will we ever know what became of her? he asked wistfully. Only if we can trust dreams. I fear they lie as often they tell the truth.

It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.

This word natsukashii seemed to be made of mist, a mist I was wandering through with unsteady steps.

And I am still haunted by all the things I could have been.

This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.

I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.

Say what?" Jenks blurted out. "You think those moss wipes are coming back?" "I wish," I muttered. "I've got some serious hurt with their name on it.