“Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of… — T. Greenwood Copy Share Image
The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Even now, talking about those days, tears well up in my eyes, my indefatigable heart pounds rebelliously and still suffers, and my… — Evgeniya Tur Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“They should not clench their fists, it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them; they should not stand there full of… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
“This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear… — Robert Vivian Copy Share Image
