“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
In the end, all we have left are memories. Bits and pieces of the time we've spent together. No matter how long… — Maud Berben Copy Share Image
“He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the… — robert galbraith Copy Share Image
“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“Lily’s room transformed into a treasure chest told from a child’s perspective; minute details unearthed, bits and scraps of memory whose retelling… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it— memoria hospitis unius… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Unlike longings, hopes, or even concrete goals, these affirmations can manifest in every moment when you hold them in your heart. Then… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the… — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I look back with nostalgia on the relaxed royal processions of yore, when no one would even think of checking the five-foot-long… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Every tear is a sign of brokenness, every silence is sign of lonlyness, every smile is sign of kindness, every sms is… — Rock4u Copy Share Image
“Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Nothing. That was a nostalgia kiss,” he said. “It’s sepia colored. People in that kiss are . . . wearing stovepipe hats . . . and children are… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward. — Dan Gillerman Copy Share Image
“Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a… — Martine Murray Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
