“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Today the clerk in the fancy deli next door asked me how I was, and I said, 'I have deep longings that… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Once a thing is removed from your heart, a trace of it still remains.” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor… — Malka Ann Older Copy Share Image
“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves,… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
“Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of… — Joanne M. Harris Copy Share Image
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.” — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
“Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.” — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
