Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. — FM-2030 Copy Share Image
“As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.” — Brad Herzog Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
“Eraritjaritjaka albutjika Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for home In the heat of the sun… — Stuart Rintoul Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Remember the 'meet-cute'? The charming encounter at the bookstore, the chance meeting at a coffee shop, the accidental bump-in at the dog… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Gotta love the memories you make with others. It impacts you as a person. You never know where life will throw you,… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
“I had looked into the distance so long that I hadn't seen what was near at hand. If we don't cherish those… — Janice Clark 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
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
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
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
“What good is your gold if your friends will not lift you when you have fallen? How long lived our memory of… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Boredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor’s appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Old longings nomadic leap Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Awaken the ferine strain.” — John Myers O'Hara Copy Share Image
Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. — Larry Nelson Copy Share Image
I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Dont listen to music all the time when you wanna forget something cause a song could bring you the memeories you had. — $Teady Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.” — Milan kundera Copy Share Image
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.” — Kate Saunders Copy Share Image
“you ruptured the love lakes of my longing and scattered the continents of my heart.” — K. Y. Robinson Copy Share Image
“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image