I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Little moments nostalgia does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with.” — Fiona Maazel Copy Share Image
“Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't already been said?” — Gail Hareven Copy Share Image
A smile can hide the tears, a laugh can hide the pain, but nothing stops the longing to have you back again. — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
“Hearing a crow with no mouth Cry in the deep Darkness of the night, I feel a longing for My father before… — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
“And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no… — Lars Saabye Christensen Copy Share Image
Life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain people who hang onto nostalgia and I wish they wouldn't. I wish the young beautiful actresses and other people… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that… — Julianne Davidow Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
“And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
Back in the '90s, whenever we were having '70s nostalgia, you could take the good with the bad. Like yeah, sure, Nixon… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I remember being unusually pensive that May evening, perhaps it was the heat of Spring's first warm day which, encountering my thick… — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of… — T. Greenwood Copy Share Image
As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic. — David Burnett Copy Share Image
Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia. — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed” — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.” — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image