Quotes About Wistfulness

Sometimes I wish I could go back to before we met. Not because I want to forget you or what we had. But because it would be so much easier than knowing what I don't have now that you left.

Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Surely that couldn't be the end of her first kiss? It seemed sort of pointless, to do that once without doing it again.

Was there anything more cruel than to want something after years of not wanting, and to know you cannot have it?

I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. Honestly, it would've saved me so much hurt and pain.

days slipping by in idyll.

Altogether, I had derived little benefit from being in Balbec, for which reason I was all the more determined to come back one day. I felt I had spent too short a time there.

I am lonesome for all the conversations we never had.

They watch the girls with level goat-eyes and make disparaging remarks to one another while their insides whimper with longing. In

Everyone has those nights when you lay down and just think about those moments in life, you would do anything to re-live...

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

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.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

The best love affairs are those we never had

Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can't erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.

It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living.

It can drive you insane thinking of all the other lives we don't live.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

or furniture I wanted to buy or even people I was attracted to (well, I'm referring to those things a little) but, rather, a sensation I can only describe as the ache of not being there

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had