I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
All I got with me now are just the memories that made me a better man. — Sirivi Hanson Copy Share Image
“First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.” — L M Montgomery Copy Share Image
“From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony. The harmony past knowing sounds more deeply than the known.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Remembrance in Love too is amazing for I can always tell you, stop thinking about me, for I shall forever keep thinking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left. — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Don't get too close to them, because they will run. Not because they're scared, but because your the one, so pause will… — Archie Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these… — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
“Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Thoreau admonished, “Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
