Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“You used to get so excited about music and novels. It was as if the world had suddenly transformed. I liked you… — Genki Kawamura Copy Share Image
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a… — Nick Mancuso Copy Share Image
“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and… — Robert D. Stolorow Copy Share Image
“Pekka Rollins had lured them with a warm fire and the promise of the life they’d lost. And that was what destroyed… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that… — Rica Bolipata-Santos Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The public's abiding fascination with flaying saucers, C.G. Jung suggests, 'may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I… — Gaspar Claus Copy Share Image
“Your poor heart, in which God put appreciation for everlastingness, will not take electronic gadgets in lieu of eternal life. Something inside… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“We age slowly. First our pleasure in life and other people declines, everything gradually becomes so real, we understand the significance of… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long. The experience of the years shows it to me. But Destiny arrived in some… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Live like you are extraordinary. Love like you admire someone's most painful burden. Breathe like the air is scented with lavender and… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for… — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me… — Greer Hendricks Copy Share Image
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a… — Joy Sikorski Copy Share Image
Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
“ Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“After a time, her smile faded, then finally reappeared as she sighed. The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness.” — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is… — William Gibson 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
