On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change.” — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something. — Washed Out 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
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
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
“ 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
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops.… — Mary Lois Timbes Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" .… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Missing Home Sometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“I guess that's the magic of songs. The very best ones, they let you forget that they were written by someone about… — Jasmine Warga Copy Share Image
I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image