In your arms you held me close, My head lay on your shoulder, Now its over and gone And my heart's just… — Elizabeth Revontlow Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey—sunlit, golden, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Longing hurts. but sometimes it's good to miss because only the longing shows the true importance that a person has in your… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
You could replace somebody but you could never replace the memories you had with that person. — $Teady Copy Share Image
“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Our memories and the events of our lives are untidy things. We wish that we could file them away and shut the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
