Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me… — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
“Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Why then do our answers about love only survive in pictures? Why can a voice hijack so many passengers but never quietly… — K. Eltinaé Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber… — Immanuel Kant 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
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“We will never understand our world until we have come to terms with its future: it is the age in which we… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Dont listen to music all the time when you wanna forget something cause a song could bring you the memeories you had. — $Teady Copy Share Image
I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
“But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.” — Milan kundera Copy Share Image
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. — Larry Nelson Copy Share Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left. — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Remembrance in Love too is amazing for I can always tell you, stop thinking about me, for I shall forever keep thinking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.” — L M Montgomery Copy Share Image
All I got with me now are just the memories that made me a better man. — Sirivi Hanson Copy Share Image
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
