“How long, Klara wondered now, how long after the mortar set did the joy remain? When one embraces a moment of rapture… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. It's a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood... ...Somewhere in me a nearly… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.” — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
“Jubilation knows and Longing grants — only Lament still learns; with girlish hands she counts the ancient evil through the nights. But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.” — Claire Cook Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the… — Guy Maddin 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
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I forgive you." The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
