Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long. The experience of the years shows it to me. But Destiny arrived in some… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to… — Sarah Domet 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
“Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories. — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming… — Anonymous 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
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
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Longing is like the seed That wrestles in the ground, Believing if it intercede It shall at length be found. The hour… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Ruing the disappearance of a diverse candy market isn't just nostalgia. Fewer people concocting means dominant players have fewer reasons to innovate. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Memories are fragile, you try to grab them and they skitter away in various directions. Trying to gather them together to write… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
