But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“I had looked into the distance so long that I hadn't seen what was near at hand. If we don't cherish those… — Janice Clark Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever,… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.” — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“What good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't already been said?” — Gail Hareven Copy Share Image
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Christmas brings me a sense of nostalgia that makes me feel sadly happy and, at the same time, happily sad! — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union. — Clarissa Ward 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
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image