“Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me… — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if,… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
“There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you." -… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have… — Gunnhild Øyehaug Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Just as the wheel rests on the ground only at one point, so, strictly speaking, we live only for one thought-moment. We… — Nārada, Maha Thera Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
