“It’s amazing how nostalgia filters out the bad and focuses only on the good.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When ever I miss you, I remember the time we were together... Those memmories are the sweetest — Rahul Reghunath Copy Share Image
“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I forgive you." The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As the title implies, 'The Happy Cookbook' - by me and my wife Kathy - is a collection of over 100 easy… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Thoreau admonished, “Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
