Wistful Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

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
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… — Albert Camus
He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now.… — Stephenie Meyer
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. Iâ€™m guessing he would have seized on its wistful… — Jennifer Egan
The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole… — J R Ward
That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for… — Rachel Cohn
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there… — Louisa May Alcott
You mostly.â€ Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for… — Rachel Vincent
The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance." I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm… — Rick Riordan
Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was… — Rachel Vincent
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are… — Albert Schweitzer
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost… — Friedrich Nietzsche
McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call me William?" Amy… — Judy Blundell
Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance… — Albert Payson Terhune
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him… — Cormac McCarthy
The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than… — Flora Rheta Schreiber

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