“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On this particular weather-mad March eve, the old man, now, finally, a realist, slips his noose and indulges both in nostalgia for… — Neil Hetzner Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
“...a domino line of laughter, but with an edge to it, a longing, an awe, and many of the watchers realized with… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing… — Samora Machel Copy Share Image
Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Time goes on , moments becomes memories .mistry becomes history unknown becomes known but life never waits for any one life goes… — Sahil Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
