“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
“My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it… — Mimi Baird Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of… — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
“In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The idea that America used to be great is, in the minds of a lot of people who were oppressed by America,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies,… — Christian Lorentzen Copy Share Image
“And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“Don't say that. I cherish every moment i've had with you. Every single one, okay? Even when we fight. Don't wish it… — Kahlen Aymes Copy Share Image
“It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm,… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made… — Lara Williams Copy Share Image
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews… — Kevin Haworth Copy Share Image
“I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness, Men into things, not killing humane senses. You’ve been turned in to my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“...that distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.” — Leon Logothetis Copy Share Image
“Something about the crisp, cool air, the twinkling carnival lights, and the scent of deep-fried food provided the perfect atmosphere for reckless… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
