Quotes About Wistfulness

Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

When I'm alone with only dreams of you that won't come true what'll I do?

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

He sighed. The sound conveyed no impatience, only a deep wistfulness. "You are telling me that before you can be sure of your affections, you must be sure of yourself.

She picked up her spoon, gathered the last bit of trifle from her bowl, and consumed it with her characteristic mixture of gourmandise and wistfulness.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

If he only knew how much, she thought as she moved on. As

Sometimes we hope for what we left behind.

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When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it's very hard to endure the not having.

I wished it had turned out differently. I wished I had been better all around. I wished above all that when I believed something, like that I was finally over her, that I knew myself even the slightest bit.

He had dreamed, he had dreamed...it left him.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

few things, I assure you, will devastate like the might-have-beens).

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.

I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.