I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies,… — Christian Lorentzen Copy Share Image
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It… — Matthew Sturges Copy Share Image
“A remembrance of what’s impossible to remember. A sixth sense I’ve long guessed is special to those who are born with leftover… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.…… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image