I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on… — John Pritchard Copy Share Image
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey—sunlit, golden, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“They haven't spoken about it, they haven't said what will we do when we leave here, do you want to come with… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“from HOUSEKEEPING, by Marilynne Robinson: There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was what the costumes were about, the goofy T-shirts, but inside her head, which is where she heard the music,… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The… — Howard Kremer Copy Share Image
“The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a… — Bao Ninh Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
“But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Gotta love the memories you make with others. It impacts you as a person. You never know where life will throw you,… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
“I had looked into the distance so long that I hadn't seen what was near at hand. If we don't cherish those… — Janice Clark Copy Share Image
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Something shifts in my chest, and a longing pulls at the very core of me. I want that: the closeness, the overwhelming… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Don't get entangled With what you long for or dislike. Not seeing what you long for is suffering; So also is seeing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It's so painful to depart from a place where you'd grown with full of reminiscence. But nothing is more agony when you… — Rain3031 Copy Share Image
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing -… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“...where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty… — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
“The quality of the light through the amethyst, as the sun slants toward setting, stirs a feeling of longing and relief in… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
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