“I don't hold memories in my hand, but I'll never let them go.” — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
“I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia” — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I followed my longing to feel something new, my longing followed me right back to you.. — Re1ncarnated Copy Share Image
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Every tear is a sign of brokeness, Every silenceis a sign of loneliness, Every smile is a sign of kindness, Every mms… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much… — Simon Wroe Copy Share Image
“The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
“we’ll speak about two young men who found much happiness for a few weeks and lived the remainder of their lives dipping… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image