The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Iris, I am a bunch of longing dissolved in a sea of happiness in your love.” — 2nd Lieutenant Clifford Vincent Copy Share Image
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Love is a longing for becoming one with another human being that nobody of us can avoid.” — Tatjana Ostojic Copy Share Image
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they… — John Gloag Copy Share Image
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Remembrance in love in love too is amazing. For I can always tell you, stop thinking about me...for I Shall forever keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between… — James Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Is this what is called remorse of conscience or repentance? I do not know, and I cannot tell to this day. Perhaps… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Raves when it was safe to be free & wave your hands in the air, like you didn't even care! Not scared… — Progrezza Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke remembrances of a carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be.… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
“You have certain hopes,” he began, the subject making him visibly uncomfortable. “You do this as a nostalgic trip, and nostalgia is… — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
“Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.” — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“The depth of longing I felt for him didn’t seem possible for someone my age.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah! - The Count Sesame Street ” — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
How can someone go who have never come, I know this all still memories become troublesome. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between buying 25 friendship bands and passing by the shop with a smile looking at kids buying the bands, we grew up” — Anamika mishra Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.” — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard. — William Chalmers Burns Copy Share Image
“Too bad nostalgia cant last forever. And if it did it wouldn't be nostalgia anymore, or would it?” — Irene Dueck Copy Share Image
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image