All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.” — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
“This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear… — Robert Vivian Copy Share Image
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The table between them is the size of an ocean. She smiles an impersonal smile and Hugo smiles back, just as impersonally.… — Johanna Hedman Copy Share Image
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed” — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
How can someone go who have never come, I know this all still memories become troublesome. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah! - The Count Sesame Street ” — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.” — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“The depth of longing I felt for him didn’t seem possible for someone my age.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Love is a longing for becoming one with another human being that nobody of us can avoid.” — Tatjana Ostojic Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
