“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
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
“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
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant… — Natalia Ginzburg 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
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“This imaginary colour film of the past would need to have a soundtrack too, which would record the crunch and crackle of… — Adrian Bell Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that… — Anne Hillman Copy Share Image
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“I pedaled as fast as I could... as if I were escaping from longing, from innocence, from her. Time has passed, and… — Renato Amoroso Copy Share Image
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary.… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our… — Heinrich Zimmer Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around… — Beau Taplin Copy Share Image
“No one leaves his or her world without being transfixed by its roots, or with a vacuum for a soul. We carry… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And although he had given himself a week to do it in andhad told the landlady that he had finally decided to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel’s remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh’s fidelity… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
