“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
“If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let… — Kat Von D 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
“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
“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
“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
Every tear is a sign of brokeness, Every silenceis a sign of loneliness, Every smile is a sign of kindness, Every mms… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It… — Matthew Sturges Copy Share Image
“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than… — Basim Furat Copy Share Image
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is… — Mohsin Hamid 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
“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
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
“She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward. — Dan Gillerman Copy Share Image
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a… — Martine Murray 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
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
“Unlike longings, hopes, or even concrete goals, these affirmations can manifest in every moment when you hold them in your heart. Then… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the… — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
“I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
