Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“Today is the one that introduces Yesterday to Tomorrow. If it weren't for Today, Nostalgia would never meet Hope.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“you ruptured the love lakes of my longing and scattered the continents of my heart.” — K. Y. Robinson Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.” — Kate Saunders Copy Share Image
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious… — Oscar Milosz Copy Share Image
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only the least realistic of our desires, and… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“Can I say of her face—altered as I have reason to remember it, perished as I know it is—that it is gone,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than… — Basim Furat Copy Share Image
“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?' — George Saunders Copy Share Image
