Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Nothing ignites nostalgia quicker than news from a long forgotten friend from the past. It is then when one realizes how quick… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and… — Stefan Grabiński Copy Share Image
“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
