“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing,… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
“Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved. Here was her abode on the edge… — Imru al-Qays Copy Share Image
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I still remember, very vividly and clearly, what you last wrote to me. Each of those words pierced my heart. I still… — Austin V. Songer Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those people who feels that they were born in the wrong era. I don't know if that's nostalgia.… — Memory Tapes 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
“I have a longing other than longing. other than what fills the chests of the years. Things approach it as if they… — Adonis Copy Share Image
No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
“Stories are told at festive, joyful gatherings, but the ones narrated at funerals are special because they reaffirm existence, of the listeners… — Janice Pariat Copy Share Image
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect… — Greg Hicks Copy Share Image
Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“We often think we know things when in fact it's only our imagination taking us further and further away from what is… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good… — Bun B Copy Share Image
There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like guillotining people. Honestly, it's kind of for nostalgia because my first coaches were good at guillotines. So that's the first… — Gerald Meerschaert Copy Share Image
“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“How do you write a memory? For that matter, what is a memory? A remembrance, a dream of the past that floats… — Stephen Vaughn Copy Share Image
“But how can you be Peter Pan? You? The Boy Who Never Grew Up? That's not you. You have egg on your… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed,… — Philip K. Dick 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
“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives)… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“△ Remembrance of the Whole A Poem by Alexander Martini To remember is not to retrieve facts. It is to reawaken the… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image