Quotes About Wistfulness

My life has been one long longing.

In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.

That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Just seeing the sign brought pain. There was so much I would do differently. I read somewhere that too often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with. I could relate to that.

If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

But now she dreamed every night of lost things.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

They were simply looking at the sky. In their eyes there was no vision: only the reflection of the blue and the absolute skies of early autumn. Those blue skies though, were unusual skies that I might never see again in my life.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

It's kind of amazing, how nostalgic you can feel for memories that never actually happened.

All I'd need is a minute. Not major time. Not the kind of time it takes to compose a symphony. Build a palace. Fight a war. Just a few crappy seconds. The kind of time it takes to tie a shoe. Peel a banana. Blow your nose. But I haven't got it. And I never will.

there are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me

Show me a man of fifty who doesn't regret the lives he hasn't lived.

Grayson told me. "I wanted her to be you." "Don't say that," I whispered. He looked at me one last time. "There are so many things that I will never say.

If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.

I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own.

In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.