“–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die– “What?” –Meaning–” — Heather Heffner Copy Share Image
“Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.” — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
A million feelings, a thousand thoughts, hundreds of memories, all for one person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the taste of rum in my mouth and the sting of remembrance in my heart, I set my sights on the… — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares.… — Rev Ed Hird Copy Share Image
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“My grief is my castle, which like an eagle's nest is built high up on the mountain peaks among the clouds; nothing… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“She, who had never liked weddings, had allowed herself this fantasy. Her wedding day to Rory. A pretty church in Sussex, festooned… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of… — al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“If I had my life over I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice,… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between… — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“(...) El arte necesita nostalgia. No se puede ser artista si no se ha perdido algo.” — Alejandro Dolina Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia seems like a harmless pastime until it renders you blind.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
The person whom you love the most breaks your heart & leaves you, Even after years when you see that person, your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you will never live.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Mengenali Engkau ya Allah sebagai Rabbku merupakan kenangan manisku di dunia.” — Amir 'Izzuddin Muhammad Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Young, wild, and free, my whole life ahead of me. So I'm drinking heavily, steadily making memories. — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
“I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought… — John Waters Copy Share Image