Quotes About Wistfulness

#1. She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Lorrie Moore

#2. She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.

Jennifer Ryan

#3. I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Dennis Potter

#5. 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?

Joseph O'Neill

#6. A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.

Georgette Heyer

#7. She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.

Mary Balogh

#8. Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

Kate Bosworth

#9. I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Beth Broderick

#10. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. One of the functions of entertainment, I think, is education. - Roy E. Disney

Newton Lee

#12. They wept with joy, happy to see him alive. A smile crept across Fritz while being smothered in their affection, but all he could think about, and what he never forgot, were those mountains.

Dylan Callens

#13. The enemy, self-consciousness, is creeping up on them and Gibbsy or Biggsy is the first to crack, declaring that the music is shit and everyone stops dancing immediately as if a spell has been broken.

David Nicholls

#14. A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#15. Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of our lives and of human history lies.

Alija Izetbegovic

#16. I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

Vera Wang

#17. I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk!

Julie James

#18. The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.

Bing Gordon