I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don’t… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I try not to lean too hard into nostalgia or anything. My favorite time to shoot New York is right now. People… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“But the mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable remembrance, for she watched the death of seven sons in the course… — 2 Maccabees 7 20 Copy Share Image
And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV,… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
My anxiety is a death sentence, depression increased because of remembrance, lack the power to conquer my struggles, because the walls make… — Reanna Fayola Copy Share Image
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There are some things in life that you can never get back... Memories that eventually fade away... People that leave you behind… — Ahmed Hameel Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Surah Rad 13:28; Those who believe, and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah: for without doubt in the remembrance… — Quran Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
“As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops.… — Mary Lois Timbes Copy Share Image
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
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