Quotes About Wistfulness

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

And he knew that he would never come again, and that lost magic would not come again. Lost now was all of it - the street, the heat, King's Highway, and Tom the Piper's son, all mixed in with the vast and drowsy murmur of the Fair, and with the sense of absence in the afternoon, and the house that waited, and the child that dreamed.

It's never gonna be over, is it? Thinking about the life we might have had.

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now I want it back

All Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known.

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.

Longing that is deeper than want. It's not as simple as desire. It's more like missing something you've never had.

Do you have such periods too? Periods you wish you could go back to, because you let them pass, because you wasted them, not realizing how precious they were? Periods you threw away like—how does the line go—like pearls before swine? Periods that, if only you could turn the wheel of time back to them, you would knit and embroider forever into your being, never letting them go?

sad things are beautiful only from a distance

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

Había olvidado lo dulcemente que transcurre el tiempo en París.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

It may be odd that I also felt a "shock of recognition" when I first saw Pryor. But watching Pryor reminded me of an emotional condition that is specific to Koreans: han, a combination of bitterness, wistfulness, shame, melancholy, and vengefulness, accumulated from years of brutal colonialism, war, and U.S.-supported dictatorships that have never been politically redressed. Han is so ongoing that it can even be passed down: to be Korean is to feel han.