Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
“Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is… — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
“Maybe you leave because you long to know. Maybe you leave not because of longing but because you must. Or maybe you… — Marisa Donnelly 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
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
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“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
Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in… — Anonymous 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
“The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Regardless of where many of us believe we land - in that field encumbered by not too much baggage or entirely too… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all important, for it is only in the present moment that our assumptions can be controlled. The future… — Neville Copy Share Image
“Unlike longings, hopes, or even concrete goals, these affirmations can manifest in every moment when you hold them in your heart. Then… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your… — Annie Barrows 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
