Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear… — Robert Vivian Copy Share Image
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that;… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It seemed like it was always autumn in this field - it was fitting really. Everything was shaded with the bronzes and… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Before, I thought we could write about life only when we had recovered from our wounds; when we were able to touch… — Ahlam Mosteghanemi Copy Share Image
“As Edna walked along the street she was thinking of Robert. She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“one of those twinges of surreal nostalgia that make you acutely aware of all the living you’ve done and how the choices… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't get too close to them, because they will run. Not because they're scared, but because your the one, so pause will… — Archie Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have… — Gunnhild Øyehaug Copy Share Image
“It should not be a surprise, even if it is not expected, if a shadow dances among the leaves, a face appears… — Mary Lois Timbes Copy Share Image
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
“What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“He smelled familiar. Not the dèjà vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing… — Josh Layon Copy Share Image
“There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you." -… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
