Quotes About Wistfulness

The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

A desire of desires: the melancholy.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

I have fantasized about people I haven't worked with for sure. Sometimes, when am watching a film, I'll be thinking, Oh my god, I should've got this scene or this song.'

In private life, Lottie Blossom tended to substitute for wistfulness and pathos a sort of "Passed-For-Adults-Only" joviality which expressed itself outwardly in a brilliant and challenging smile, and inwardly and spiritually in her practice of keeping alligators in wickerwork baskets and asking unsuspecting strangers to lift the lid.

He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp.

Take them back, Ed. Here they are. Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

How much happier we should be,' she thought to herself sadly, 'if we never grew up!

You could be my daughter, you know," Mr. Byrne tells me. "Your name—Dorothy . . . we always said we'd give to our own child someday, but alas it didn't come to pass. And here you are, red hair and all.

Mary. If you were real I'd run away with you forever.

He smiled a little sadly. "I wish you could," he said.

What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

Like all human beings she could not refrain from idly comparing what she had with what she might have had.

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so. The thing was done.

He sighed and knew that life was full of 'if only' for everyone

As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't quite articulate it except with the words "if only I were here". This little beachside cafe was so exquisite, she longed to really be there—except, of course, she was there, so it didn't make sense.

As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't quite articulate it except with the words If only I were here. This little beachside café was so exquisite, she longed to be really there -- except, of course, she was there, so it didn't make sense.

I don't want any more children," said Carmel. "I just want to go back in time to when everything was beginning. Pregnancies are the ultimate beginnings.

It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't thought, for just that one night, that there was more.

The saddest people are those who talk about the books they could have written, the garments they could have designed, or the pictures they could have painted - if only ... you do not have to be one of those people.

And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

Yes, if only this and if only that, we'd all be together and alive forever and everything would work out fine.

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.