“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot 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
“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva 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
“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete… — Neil Perryman Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change.” — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You could replace somebody but you could never replace the memories you had with that person. — $Teady Copy Share Image
“That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten. — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past. — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.” — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
