“His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. — William James Copy Share Image
“We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Though gossip it was, the women did not talk out of malice, but rather, out of habit and nostalgia for their younger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The seasonal remembrance of resurrection is here again, and whole world is reminded of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
When a film engages a lot of family members, then automatically a sense of nostalgia works for them. That once upon a… — Koel Mallick Copy Share Image
Make Use of this moment right now to create something precious, sometimes there is no next time. Sometimes, there are no second… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in… — H. V. Morton Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia.… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to. — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
“And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.” — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...” — R. Lutece Copy Share Image
