Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
From everything I wanted us to be, the worst happened: we turned out longing. Honestly? I love you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I missed him often with a fierce longing, and then sometimes I didn't.” — Jennifer Manske Fenske Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and… — Robert D. Stolorow Copy Share Image
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a… — Nick Mancuso Copy Share Image
“You used to get so excited about music and novels. It was as if the world had suddenly transformed. I liked you… — Genki Kawamura Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a… — Bao Ninh Copy Share Image
“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was what the costumes were about, the goofy T-shirts, but inside her head, which is where she heard the music,… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The… — Howard Kremer Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image