“His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together- a rocky… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“He looked around the room: the light from outside was laying a big pattern across Goody’s bed and hitting this little rug… — Jeff Arch Copy Share Image
It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the… — Eve Langley Copy Share Image
If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
“With regard to complex trauma survivors, self-determination and autonomy require that the therapist treat each client as the "authority" in determining the… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“I knew that sunny citrus helped put things in focus, sharpened the memory, just like a squeeze of lemon juice could sharpen… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other and laughed, then looked away, filled with darkness and secrecy. Then they kissed and remembered the magnificence… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Christmas...that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a… — Augusta E Rundell Copy Share Image
“Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming.… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
“Mom was standing just as she had so many times when I was young, and a pang of nostalgia pinched my chest.… — Jenny Hale Copy Share Image
Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never… — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“When he woke the next morning, or rather late in the next day, after his night’s work, he was no longer able… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I miss all the little things. Like him driving with his hand resting on my knee and the way wed share a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail… — Anne Michaels 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
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a child, we put up our live piñon pine tree we’d cut down from our ranch around December 10th. As a… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Only a small number of warriors articulated hopes more ambitious than those for personal survival. One of these was a British officer… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow - a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. Once we had such… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Memory, personal and historical, is often accompanied by moralistic sentiment. Nostalgia is an act of escapism and self-indulgence, but to forget the… — Ezra Glinter Copy Share Image
“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
