Alex Turner

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.

English Musician

Laura Amy Schlitz

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

American Author

Tom Morello

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

American Musician

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

American Novelist

Michael Dirda

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

American Critic

Elliott Abrams

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.

American Lawyer

Michael Leunig

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Australian Cartoonist

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Dennis Potter

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

British Dramatist

Deborah Tannen

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

American Sociologist

Wistful expresses a gentle, softer form of sadness, not intense grief or sorrow.

Subtle Sadness

'Wistful' often accompanies feelings of missing the past or what could have been.

Reflective Longing

Wistful can imply a mix of emotions, like hopefulness tangled with melancholy.

Emotional Nuance

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 topic now that seems kind of mundane but think about how in real life if we're having a conversation we want to change the topic there ways of doing it gracefully you don't just zip right into it you'll pat your thighs and look wistfully off into the distance or

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 so this idea of cosmic loneliness I certainly find slightly wistful. But for me, the silence of the universe is shouting, "We're the creatures who got lucky." All barriers are behind us. We're the only species that's cleared them --