So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we…

“If I meant to miss, and I made it, then I missed my miss. So I missed and I made it, rather than making…

— Jarod Kintz

“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She…

— Milan Kundera

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

— Mithun Chakraborty

“Brian had managed to retain the charm of the small town store.  He’d recently added a whole section of what Gloria called “nostalgia” items. …

— Hope Callaghan

Any time gone by was better.

— Anonymous

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

— Evan Esar

“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.”

— Hannah Rothschild

“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east…

— Alice Munro

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the…

— Esther Perel

“I don't want to break my memories with you.”

— Arzum Uzun

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand

“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”

— Maggie Nelson

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley