“She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well-meaning people might stick their fingers in their ears and vote for Biden out of nostalgia for a Democratic Party that no… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than… — Ramesh Menon Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm pretty deep into '80s nostalgia, specifically children's entertainment, so a lot of California Raisins, Garfield, Alf - that's kind of a… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes and I thought of the lash of her skirt snapping around her as she danced one evening in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I remembered all my years in the Philippines, my father fighting for his inherited land, my mother selling boggoong to the impoverished… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed… — C. Dean Andersson Copy Share Image
“One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia" How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if… — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Nothing ignites nostalgia quicker than news from a long forgotten friend from the past. It is then when one realizes how quick… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in,… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn't merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost… — Regina Sirois Copy Share Image
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
