Wistfulness Quotes

• Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

  Nicole Krauss

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Estamos en el reino no de la lógica sino de la melancolía, y debo sostener que la melancolía es una condición respetable y seria. ¿Cómo explicar, si no, gran parte de la vida?

  Joseph O'Neill

  Serious, Logic, Realms

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• Aquella visión de una cultura común es ahora simplemente una remota añoranza.

  Dennis Potter

  Vision, Culture, Common

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

  Lorrie Moore

  Loneliness, Littles, Crime

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.79, Faber & Faber

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• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  Walt Disney

  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Cuando las personas recuerdan su infancia o juventud, su nostalgia proviene del recuerdo, no de lo que sus vidas habían sido en aquellos años, sino de lo que la vida prometía ser entonces. La expectativa de un esplendor indefinible, de lo insólito, de lo emocionante, de lo grandioso, es un atributo de la juventud, y el proceso de envejecimiento es el proceso de extinción gradual de esa expectativa. No hay que dejar que ocurra. Pero ese fuego muere por falta de combustible, bajo el peso gris de las decepciones.

  Victor Hugo

  Recuerdos, Decepción, Fuego

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