When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. — Sophie Kerr Copy Share Image
“I’m learning now to be grateful for all that life brings. After all, I never know when I might be faced with… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Only a small number of warriors articulated hopes more ambitious than those for personal survival. One of these was a British officer… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Remembrance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I missed him often with a fierce longing, and then sometimes I didn't.” — Jennifer Manske Fenske Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From everything I wanted us to be, the worst happened: we turned out longing. Honestly? I love you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
