Quotes about Wistfulness
Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.
— Virginia Woolf
That's what makes a view so sad, and so beautiful. It'll be there when we're not.
— Virginia Woolf
What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.
— Harold S. Kushner
I wish I could have known you.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
What I miss is what she'd say. What she would have said.
— Margaret Atwood
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
— Alice Hoffman
He wanted a world that was like walking through rain
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
— Marilyn Monroe