Quotes About Wistfulness

like the airwaves were taking a little longer to get here, so we could live in yesterday a little longer, even if it felt wrong.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything.

I'd wish then that I could afford to go to the ticket counter and buy a seat on the next plane back to where I'd come from.

It hurts to look at what you can't have

I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year.

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

She could never look at surfers without a painful sense of another life she could have lived.

Movie composer Henry Mancini, stimulated by Audrey to write 'Moon River' and 'Charade' and 'Two for the Road', always maintained that if you listened carefully to these three songs you could almost determine who inspired them. They were all imbued, he said, with Audrey's inimitable wistfulness – 'a kind of slight sadness'.

When you grow up without something, the lack of it is always with you. Even when you finally have it." Helen

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Nothing so much torments a geezer as the thought of the unlived life.

It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.

With a jolt of surprise, he realized he had not really wanted anything for twenty years.

I am tired of missing you and it's a shame we are not better friends.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

I wanted again May roses in December. I

And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.

But the truth is different. You're much more likely to have a Silver Emma moment than a Bronze Borghini one. When researchers have tracked people's thoughts by asking them to keep daily diaries or by pinging them randomly to ask what's on their mind, they've discovered that If Onlys outnumber At Leasts in people's lives—often by a wide margin.[7] One study found that 80 percent of the counterfactuals people generate are If Onlys.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.

Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life

That one ex you'd take back if they asked....