Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.” — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. — Callimachus Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I try not to lean too hard into nostalgia or anything. My favorite time to shoot New York is right now. People… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“But the mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable remembrance, for she watched the death of seven sons in the course… — 2 Maccabees 7 20 Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The music is mesmerizing. It’s not sad, but it makes you yearn for those afternoons or mornings or nights when you felt… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without… — Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things Im missing out on right now, and all the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“People tended to get too nostalgic for such things, not realizing that there is very limited pride to be had in torturing… — Rick Gualtieri Copy Share Image
“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.” — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad… — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
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