“You used to get so excited about music and novels. It was as if the world had suddenly transformed. I liked you… — Genki Kawamura Copy Share Image
“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and… — Robert D. Stolorow Copy Share Image
“Pekka Rollins had lured them with a warm fire and the promise of the life they’d lost. And that was what destroyed… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a… — Nick Mancuso Copy Share Image
“For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that… — Rica Bolipata-Santos Copy Share Image
Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
Surah Rad 13:28; Those who believe, and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah: for without doubt in the remembrance… — Quran Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Really just about the only remembrance I have from when I was very young is the way Daddy used to place me… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops.… — Mary Lois Timbes Copy Share Image
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“ Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
“After a time, her smile faded, then finally reappeared as she sighed. The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness.” — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
“When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for… — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
“I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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