“Don't get entangled With what you long for or dislike. Not seeing what you long for is suffering; So also is seeing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
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“...where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty… — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing -… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. We were in your old Civic. Nine Inch Nails was turned up on the… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
“The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“There was so much force and beauty in the windows, such unsettled sadness in what little I knew of Rose's life, all… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Each and every one of us has moments like these, times when a book becomes more than a book. It is a… — Emily Asher-Perrin Copy Share Image
“By exerting ourselves through unnecessary or irrelevant speech or action, we increase the risk of conflict by a million percent. By meeting… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a powerful and cunning witch. If you are not careful, she will seduce you back into the past and such… — Muriel Maufroy Copy Share Image
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for… — Bruno Grandi Copy Share Image
“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
“As we walk through the secretive doors of our remembrance, looking for forgotten benchmarks of our history, we can find unexpected escape… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Everything that’s happened to you up to this point in your life is all nostalgia of equal intensity. We’re the ones who… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Free-market capitalism doesn't pick economic winners and losers based on the president's economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn't marked a top-down ideological… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with… — Fernando Sabino Copy Share Image
The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
It's not only 'Aashiqui.' In the case of any cult film which has a sequel or a remake, it is very difficult… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“This is the first time that Andrea ever knows it, feels it, deep in her gut: the dull ache of longing. It’s… — Miren B. Flores Copy Share Image
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had to ask myself, why I was sensing a twinge of something that felt suspiciously like nostalgia. But starlight can do… — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express… — El-P Copy Share Image
“A sackful of human flesh that lives off its nostalgia for other forgettable things until it comes face to face with what… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
I'm not an easy one when it comes to nostalgia - as long as I've got a new idea I'll always think… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Her grandparents’ house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
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