“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.” — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
“Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.” — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Coming into the home where I grew up always fills me with a confused nostalgia. Everything is as it has been for… — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Because it never went away. Nostalgia suggests that feelings are coming back, and they can't do that, when they never went away.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.” — Eshkol Nevo Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Debemos andar a ciegas entre tanta suciedad y tanto disparate. Y no tenemos a nadie que nos indique el camino; nuestra única… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
