Wistful Quotes

46 Wistful quotes by 42 unique authors

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
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
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. — Shirley Jackson
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. — Alan Valentine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
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
I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. — Noel Coward
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
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
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
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
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is… — Merrill Markoe
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift… — H P Lovecraft
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
So, what are you doing tonight?" Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course." You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful. Do you have homework to do?" Of… — Lisa McMann
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell

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