“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings.… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing,… — John Randolph 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
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
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These… — Elizabeth Hand 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
And although he had given himself a week to do it in andhad told the landlady that he had finally decided to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel’s remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh’s fidelity… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry 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
“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
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
“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
“A sackful of human flesh that lives off its nostalgia for other forgettable things until it comes face to face with what… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express… — El-P Copy Share Image
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had to ask myself, why I was sensing a twinge of something that felt suspiciously like nostalgia. But starlight can do… — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
“This is the first time that Andrea ever knows it, feels it, deep in her gut: the dull ache of longing. It’s… — Miren B. Flores Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
It's not only 'Aashiqui.' In the case of any cult film which has a sequel or a remake, it is very difficult… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with… — Fernando Sabino Copy Share Image
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away.… — Meindert DeJong Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
