“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost… — Regina Sirois Copy Share Image
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only the least realistic of our desires, and… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“While many feel deceived by a scattered ‘now’ of a broken present, others have started diving into the nostalgia of the future,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
In the end, all we have left are memories. Bits and pieces of the time we've spent together. No matter how long… — Maud Berben Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“It’s a longing. And the kind of longing I have towards you is not just sweet or romantic. Even the mere thought… — M.V. Kasi Copy Share Image
“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the… — robert galbraith Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares.… — Rev Ed Hird Copy Share Image
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf,… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
