Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“These are involuntary muscles. His eyes sting, his scalp prickles—he wants to cry! You know how if you remember something very horrid… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days,… — Scott MacDonald Copy Share Image
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do,… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those… — James Martin Copy Share Image
Those memories from that one summer where you found love and yourself. Thats a memorie that could never be replaced. Like swinging… — Mee Copy Share Image
I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“We walked into the arena together with him reaching out his arm and wrapping it around my waist. He pulled me into… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The existence and remembrance of god depends on the ignorance of people close to your heart. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. — Wendy Wright Copy Share Image
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul. — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.” — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
With Kind Remembrances and Best Wishes for a Bright and Special New Year. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time… — Philip the Apostle Copy Share Image