I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity...I finally get it after… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
I have a natural fear of anything that feels like celebrating my own past to an extent that doesn't allow me to… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail.… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What we had between us was nothing as simple as longing or sexual desire. It was a hunger for beauty and meaning,… — Laurie Lico Albanese Copy Share Image
“Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“I began to mourn the simplicity of my childhood, the warmth of my family that now seemed lost, years had passed by… — Donal O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“...Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for… — Esphyr Slobodkina Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Can't you come up with something different? And therein lies the whole of mans plight.Human time does not turn in a circle;it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“As I passed through the gates, the blistered hands of nostalgia gave my heart a good squeeze and I realized you miss… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I prefer being around young people. I don't like situations from the past, definitely no nostalgia. I prefer to think of doing… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and… — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
