“There will be no more nostalgias, Phil decides. From now on I’m living in this moment, then this one, and then this.… — Catriona Ross Copy Share Image
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me – when the body’s memory awakens, and old longings pulse again… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
Remembrance is a better compliment than love. People never expect tons of love, but a spec of remembrance is enough to keep… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Was a time... Sure. And there was another fucking time the summers never seemed to end and you'd never paid for it… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I thought about the nightmares, the anxiety, the depression, the nagging feeling that I was a pathetic coward. I looked at Caroline,… — Scott Pratt Copy Share Image
“I have long ago lost my belief in immortality also my interest in it… I have sampled this life and it is… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Friendship, true friendship is a curious dance. Why does one recognize and embrace one soul and yet not another. What is that?… — Karen Kondazian Copy Share Image
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even… — Osho Copy Share Image
“However, I suppose VH1 *is* selling me something; they're selling nostalgia, which means they're selling my own memories back to me, which… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Love consumes me like the burning flame of a candle, I grieve in your Longing, my desire too agonizing to be handled… — Irtika Kazi Copy Share Image
“There are two types of people in this world: those who resist change in favor of nostalgia and those who move with… — Phil M Jones Copy Share Image
“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
Ruing the disappearance of a diverse candy market isn't just nostalgia. Fewer people concocting means dominant players have fewer reasons to innovate. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
“We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to… — Sarah Domet Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I forgive you." The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image