“Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and… — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“It does not matter where I am. The sky is always mine. Windows, ideas, air, love, earth, all mine. Why does it… — Sohrab Sepehri Copy Share Image
Every tear is a sign of broken heart, every silence is a sign of loneliness, every smile is a sign of happiness,… — Mrthrill Copy Share Image
“Tri godine trajao je period pretvaranja u kanadskoga drzavljanina. To je vrijeme po misljenju tamosnjih vlasti dovoljno da covjek zaboravi na sve… — Miljenko Jergović Copy Share Image
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
“I think it is this that it is this that draws me to the pond on a night in April, bearing witness… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Cabel felt the familiar nostalgic excitement of the endless possibilities encapsulated in a summers' night at Silver Beach. He smiled at himself… — Erin Farwell Copy Share Image
“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
“She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well-meaning people might stick their fingers in their ears and vote for Biden out of nostalgia for a Democratic Party that no… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?" "That's… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Phoebe makes her way and leaves. Grant is frozen. A whole minute goes by. Then, he reaches forward, clutching the air that… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist… — Mitch Cullin Copy Share Image
“The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on… — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that’s how nostalgia works, right? We… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Make Use of this moment right now to create something precious, sometimes there is no next time. Sometimes, there are no second… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
