And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past…

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Maggie Nelson

“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

“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

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

— Arzum Uzun

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

“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

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

— Hannah Rothschild

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

— Evan Esar

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

Any time gone by was better.

— Anonymous

“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.”

— William Shakespeare

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold…

— James McBride

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the…

— El-P

“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our…

— Rainer Maria Rilke