I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm not an easy one when it comes to nostalgia - as long as I've got a new idea I'll always think… — Jim Kerr 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
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings.… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“As for time, it is forever shrinking. Oppressed by multitasking and managerial efficiency, we live under a perpetual time pressure. The disease… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
“So when I'm up here it feeds, for lack of a better word, nostalgia about my youth. Some people get that way… — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.” — Kate Saunders Copy Share Image
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow would test every ounce of acting ability that she possessed. But tonight, surrounded by love and laughter and the willful blindness… — Goldie Williamson Copy Share Image
“First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.” — L M Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
