“In my memories it was always December. December became another word for home to me. Then there were other times when I… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I looked to my boyfriend to satisfy my Godbreathed longing for acceptance. I had my first glimpse of what it might feel… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy… — Bill Geist Copy Share Image
As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around… — Beau Taplin Copy Share Image
“No one leaves his or her world without being transfixed by its roots, or with a vacuum for a soul. We carry… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight… — Jim Provenzano Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too,… — Lisa Anselmo Copy Share Image
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. I get sentimental… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
“Jubilation knows and Longing grants — only Lament still learns; with girlish hands she counts the ancient evil through the nights. But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed,… — Chimanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried,… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the greatest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She can feel the sun pressing on her face. August takes her hand in his, pressing it, and she smiles and presses… — Johanna Hedman Copy Share Image
“I have a great longing for a particular sort of world in which one can work and breathe and sometimes be insanely… — Anna Seghers Copy Share Image
I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much... stones to remembrance. And it's like there's constant stones… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image