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Quotes About Wistful

If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply
~ Patricia Highsmith
There were plenty of things I was actually glad I had left unsaid. Still, the comment haunted me. It haunts me today. All the things I wish I had said when I had the chance. A moment recurs. We were
~ William Finnegan
How sweet time feels when it's too late
~ Leonard Cohen
And all I've said was just instead Of coming back to you.
~ Leonard Cohen
Short, narrow streets run far and wide / as if they were homesick.
~ Paul Muldoon
Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.
~ Oscar Levant
And so William was at liberty to look and long: as the poor boy at school who has no money may sigh after the contents of the tart-woman's tray.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
and I remember being a little drunk and viewing the Place de la Concorde lit up at night and it was so beautiful, and I shook my fist at Paris like a character in Balzac and said wistfully, "You old whore.
~ Woody Allen
I had just been introduced to wine and I remember being a little drunk and viewing the Place de la Concorde lit up at night and it was so beautiful, and I shook my fist at Paris like a character in Balzac and said wistfully, "You old whore." Unfortunately, I was facing a lady tourist from Detroit at the time and she didn't appreciate it.
~ Woody Allen
but before she can grasp hold of it, it floats away, like the seeds of a dandelion on the breeze, out of reach.
~ Unknown
She stuck her tongue in her cheek, thinking.
~ Lisa Graff
Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.
~ Lisa Kleypas
C'est bête, si je vous avez rencontrée avant... - Qu'est ce que vous auriez fait ? Pierre se tourne brusquement vers la jeune femme avec une sorte d'élan. Il va dire quelque chose, mais les mots s'arrêtent au bord de ses lèvres. Son visage se rembrunit, et il grogne : - Rien.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes I wish it has been you.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I squint until I find Christopher's gaze. I wish he wouldn't look at me, and I also wish that he'd never stop.
~ Jessica Park
You are the great love of my life that I'm never going to have.
~ Jessica Park
It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
My?li g?upie. My?li t?skne.
~ Unknown
Like many people who come to New York to live and then have to leave before they really want to, I spent the next three or four years with the vague feeling that there was a great party going on somewhere and I was not at it.
~ Craig Ferguson
It's too late.
~ Cynthia Lord
Hes just that guy. You know, you always have that one guy like would have, could have, should have, but it never works.
~ Unknown
Wish you were here. Wish I was there. Wish it was different. Wish wishes came true.
~ Unknown
All I want is for things to be the way they used to be.
~ Unknown
That the thought of what could have been his life sometimes haunted him, hovered around approaching corners, rode the breeze like the echo of a name called from a window.
~ Dennis Lehane