“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“Don't say that. I cherish every moment i've had with you. Every single one, okay? Even when we fight. Don't wish it… — Kahlen Aymes Copy Share Image
“It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
“NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies,… — Christian Lorentzen Copy Share Image
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I think that a lot of people have a longing to move out of the present. The present is very constricting. You… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one's fathers had done, was an endless… — The Once and Future King T.H. White Copy Share Image
“I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted… — Swami Dhyan Giten 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
“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
“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
“The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it… — Mimi Baird Copy Share Image
The idea that America used to be great is, in the minds of a lot of people who were oppressed by America,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious… — Oscar Milosz Copy Share Image
“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these… — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all!… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to… — Brink Lindsey Copy Share Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
