Wistful Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side,…
— Alan Valentine
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Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
— Shirley Jackson
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
— Alan Valentine
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We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our…
— Robert Grudin
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into…
— William Barclay
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
— Oscar Wilde
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I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets…
— Tim Winton
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We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent…
— Merrill Markoe
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I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You…
— John Dos Passos
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
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Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises…
— Robert Musil
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I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.
— Noel Coward
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of…
— John Burroughs
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April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes…
— Elizabeth Smart
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection.…
— Anita Diament
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The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender…
— Tana French
Who Wrote These Wistful Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 Wistful Quotes, led by these top contributors: