He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Just as the wheel rests on the ground only at one point, so, strictly speaking, we live only for one thought-moment. We… — Nārada, Maha Thera Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Thoreau admonished, “Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As the title implies, 'The Happy Cookbook' - by me and my wife Kathy - is a collection of over 100 easy… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than… — Basim Furat Copy Share Image
“Can I say of her face—altered as I have reason to remember it, perished as I know it is—that it is gone,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It… — Matthew Sturges Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only the least realistic of our desires, and… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
“People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
