“As I look back on the trip now, as I try to sort out fact from fiction, try to remember how I… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“Our memories and the events of our lives are untidy things. We wish that we could file them away and shut the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV and film now. That's my homework. Like I said, my Netflix.… — Danny Pudi Copy Share Image
“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“I wonder if we would ever switch back to old photo albums we got printed from photography shops. A Kodak KB10 camera… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
“But to be a parent is to live in the past-present-future all at once. It is to hug your children and be… — Youngme Moon Copy Share Image
I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and… — Antal Szerb 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
“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete… — Neil Perryman Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“The house remembered her. Laurel did not consider herself a romantic, but the sense was so strong that for a moment she… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“If only feelings and ideas and stories and history really could be contained in a block of marble—if only there could be… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
My curfew was the street lights, and my Mom didn't call my cell, she yelled time to come in. I played outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped… — Gene Pitney Copy Share Image
“I had come to Charleston as a young boy, a lonely visitor slouching through its well-tended streets, a young boy, lean and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“If you feel peaceful, you become peaceful.The idea becomes the actuality. A continuous thought can be transformed into a thing. It becomes… — Osho Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
