“He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed,… — Chimanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“A sackful of human flesh that lives off its nostalgia for other forgettable things until it comes face to face with what… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Live like you are extraordinary. Love like you admire someone's most painful burden. Breathe like the air is scented with lavender and… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
“There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way… — Anthony De Sa Copy Share Image
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“For this is the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed… — C. Dean Andersson Copy Share Image
“From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony. The harmony past knowing sounds more deeply than the known.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
Every tear is a sign of brokeness, Every silenceis a sign of loneliness, Every smile is a sign of kindness, Every mms… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“As pessoas nunca viviam no presente. Sempre construíam uma morada na nostalgia perfeita do passado ou na expectativa de um futuro inalcançado.” — Márcio Noal Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image