Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him. "Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“He'd only seen photos of her, but felt a wave of nostalgia like he was meeting a long-lost friend.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia wields a heavy hammer for those who have longed for a purer life.” — John Corley Copy Share Image
Completely satisfied I lay in your sweet embrace longing to remain indefinitely. — Richie Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“On this particular weather-mad March eve, the old man, now, finally, a realist, slips his noose and indulges both in nostalgia for… — Neil Hetzner Copy Share Image
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My curfew was the street lights, and my Mom didn't call my cell, she yelled time to come in. I played outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O fio da nostalgia. Narrativas servem como espelhos, que nos levam a mergulhar nas memórias.” — Ben Oliveira Copy Share Image
“A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.” — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
“May the loneliness of Christmas place in all hearts the longing for His presence.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
“It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary. — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“Even when the song had ended, he could still feel it inside him, like an echo of longing in his chest.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
