We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the… — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling… — Bazzi Copy Share Image
“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there… — Mack McLarty Copy Share Image
I love the first snowfall of the year; with the arrival of winter I feel close to home. We have our Christmas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of… — Joanne M. Harris Copy Share Image
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all important, for it is only in the present moment that our assumptions can be controlled. The future… — Neville Copy Share Image
“Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, 'It is not good that man should be alone.'… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“La nostalgia de ese absoluto es como un telón de fondo, invisible, incognoscible, pero con el cual medimos toda la vida, si… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Surely your longings and feelings arise from the God who created you. They were created in order to be filled, not crushed.… — Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“To die is to love. The beauty of love is not in past remembrances or in the images of tomorrow. Love has… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
“We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing, but the brack… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I want to see the '70s guys, if they're gonna do something, stay valid in the '90s. Then they belong. If they're… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I took over a show with 'Buzzcocks.' And also, I was younger and I didn't know what I was doing. It's always… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling—and I don’t think this is just nostalgia—was one of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“Now and then I see a balloon caught in the power lines, holding on, waving, flapping softly in the evening air, and… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I discovered that we liked each other. But I was fearful of giving free rein to my emotions. Fearful that all those… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image