The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
“The journey of reinvention is one of raw emotions Emerging from dormancy Surprising as a paper cut Overwhelming as a hailstorm One… — Dave Rudbarg Copy Share Image
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“This is the part of the country that invokes terrible nostalgia, a morbid and phlegm-induced retrospective of parties, clubs, drugs, shows, people,… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
“And I'm not entitled to nostalgia about all that lost wealth and glamour from a century ago. And I am not interested… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that… — Midnight in Paris Copy Share Image
“Remembering is something God asks us to do over and over in the Bible: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy”… — Eric Irivuzumugabe Copy Share Image
“From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. It's a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The notion of this powerful childhood gaze was all the more specious given that adults, in the name of that very spontaneity,… — Jean-Christophe Valtat 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
“I closed my eyes and I thought of the lash of her skirt snapping around her as she danced one evening in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I remembered all my years in the Philippines, my father fighting for his inherited land, my mother selling boggoong to the impoverished… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed… — C. Dean Andersson Copy Share Image
“One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia" How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school days, college days.. We feel nostalgic, we… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really… — Alasdair MacLean 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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“From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught… — Erich Fromm 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
![“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)
