Quotes About Wistful

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

You really love me? she asked wistfully. The devil! he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say?

just … want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I just . . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

Don't you know medicine cats don't have kits?" hissed Yellowfang furiously. "But I heard you were a warrior before that," Firepaw ventured. "I have no kits!" Yellowfang spat. She snatched her tail away from him and sat up. "Anyway"—her voice suddenly lowered, and she sounded almost wistful—"accidents seem to happen to kits when I'm around them.

A regret? That I never played for Manchester United, I'd have liked that.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I miss out on tons of stuff.

there was something wistful about her, under the burnish of her makeup she looked extremely young, and a little afraid. I wanted to speak to her, as if I were a guardian spirit working the airport—God knows I was crazed with my fresh solitariness— so I did a little double take, when I passed her, and said, Could I ask, where did you get your sandals—my husband, I lied, wants me to get some, and she said a name, as if relieved to speak.

Good-bye, Elizabeth, he said. I wish things might have been different for you and me.

I saw what love might have done had we loved in time.

"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

There was nothing wistful or tentative about that smile. It came slowly, but ended in a total crunching of her features as though a winged cherub had just flown by and whispered a marvelously funny joke into her ear.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.

Violet sighed, loudly enough to regain his full attention. She looked tired, wistful. "I wish your father were here," she said. "You don't say that very often," he said quietly. "I always wish your father were here." She closed her eyes for a brief moment. "Always.

And you promise after this is over you'll get the hell out of my mind. Do you really dislike having me here? He sounded wistful. Communicating this way is so much more intimate than speaking aloud. And so much more revealing… I can feel your emotions from here, Addison. Your true emotions, the ones you prefer to keep hidden from everyone, even yourself.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday.

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.