I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory… — Don Draper Copy Share Image
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long. The experience of the years shows it to me. But Destiny arrived in some… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Live like you are extraordinary. Love like you admire someone's most painful burden. Breathe like the air is scented with lavender and… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I… — Gaspar Claus Copy Share Image
“Your poor heart, in which God put appreciation for everlastingness, will not take electronic gadgets in lieu of eternal life. Something inside… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“It shouldn't work. It shouldn't be magic. You shouldn't weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia,… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“What good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow would test every ounce of acting ability that she possessed. But tonight, surrounded by love and laughter and the willful blindness… — Goldie Williamson Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40… — Nina Hoss Copy Share Image
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he’s not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the “triumph of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything."-Memories, Dreams, Reflections” — C. G. Jung Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I want nothing in return but just a little remembrance in your memories, I love you without expectations and I do, its… — Senoaroy Copy Share Image
I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah...know that it is the remembrance of Allah… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
“Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too,… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
