A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Missing Home Sometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I guess that's the magic of songs. The very best ones, they let you forget that they were written by someone about… — Jasmine Warga Copy Share Image
Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" .… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“It was as if rather than being there in that moment, I was somewhere else, wishing I could be there. . .… — Susanna Daniel Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“As for time, it is forever shrinking. Oppressed by multitasking and managerial efficiency, we live under a perpetual time pressure. The disease… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“It’s odd how one’s memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one’s recollections of growth itself—have… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“I wish I hadn't met you in the rain: it comes every winter. I wish you hadn't told me your favorite wine:… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“But while fear was part of what kept them together for those first few months in Marin, more powerful than fear was… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, a story about Soviet food is a chronicle of longing, of unrequited desire. So what happens when some of your most… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did,… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
“When was the moment, I don’t know when, with all my remembrances I can’t find it; maybe it was during our dance,… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and… — Stefan Grabiński Copy Share Image
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I'm just sorry. Sorry that there won't be any more camping trips for kids or rock bands or even new books to… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
“Though simple, the trick was something that struck me as useful right now . Thus, the 'when I was little' nostalgia was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image