I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do,… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“These are involuntary muscles. His eyes sting, his scalp prickles—he wants to cry! You know how if you remember something very horrid… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing,… — John Randolph Copy Share Image
“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings.… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“It is idle to say there is no such garden. Everyone recognises the same nostalgia... Paradise is neither a moment nor a… — Richard Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with uncertainty, I learned to make peace with… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“I can reveal to you that I wished to die - For with much weeping she left me Saying: "Sappho - what… — Sappho Copy Share Image
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Remember the 'meet-cute'? The charming encounter at the bookstore, the chance meeting at a coffee shop, the accidental bump-in at the dog… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“Eraritjaritjaka albutjika Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for home In the heat of the sun… — Stuart Rintoul Copy Share Image
'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“As pessoas nunca viviam no presente. Sempre construíam uma morada na nostalgia perfeita do passado ou na expectativa de um futuro inalcançado.” — Márcio Noal Copy Share Image
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on… — John Pritchard Copy Share Image
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Something shifts in my chest, and a longing pulls at the very core of me. I want that: the closeness, the overwhelming… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
