I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never… — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“As a child, we put up our live piñon pine tree we’d cut down from our ranch around December 10th. As a… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever,… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
“A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Time goes on , moments becomes memories .mistry becomes history unknown becomes known but life never waits for any one life goes… — Sahil Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing… — Samora Machel Copy Share Image
“I startled, as if awakened from a dream, and pulled my hand out of Philip's grip. The sensation I had experienced vanished… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
