“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.” — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.” — Eshkol Nevo Copy Share Image
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield 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
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
“Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Nothing. That was a nostalgia kiss,” he said. “It’s sepia colored. People in that kiss are . . . wearing stovepipe hats . . . and children are… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much… — Simon Wroe Copy Share Image
“The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Memories don't die, they become shelved in the recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life reignite them, lighting up… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Between the Miles I have always counted the miles. Sometimes they came quick, Other times slow. The distance between things, The way… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The Reaping by Stewart Stafford Paint a nostalgic landscape today, A harvest gifted once in this way, Stranger's yields come to pass,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
When I start laughing, for no reason, out of nowhere, just know that I'm thinking of you, and all the memories we… — Hannah Prokosch Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the… — William Gilmore Simms 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
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish” — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how nostalgia filters out the bad and focuses only on the good.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
