I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
“That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf,… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares.… — Rev Ed Hird Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“What good is your gold if your friends will not lift you when you have fallen? How long lived our memory of… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Boredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor’s appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Memories don't die, they become shelved in the recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life reignite them, lighting up… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much… — Simon Wroe Copy Share Image
“The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Every tear is a sign of brokeness, Every silenceis a sign of loneliness, Every smile is a sign of kindness, Every mms… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“While many feel deceived by a scattered ‘now’ of a broken present, others have started diving into the nostalgia of the future,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“It’s a longing. And the kind of longing I have towards you is not just sweet or romantic. Even the mere thought… — M.V. Kasi Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
![“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it…” quote by Jon Hamm](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/182/jon-hamm-8288_1960s_men-ruled-the-roost-and-women-played-a-s_2379052.jpg)
