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
Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things Im missing out on right now, and all the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake… — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison 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
“I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night… — Abraham M. Alghanem Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The music is mesmerizing. It’s not sad, but it makes you yearn for those afternoons or mornings or nights when you felt… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without… — Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has a deep longing in our heart. We may yearn for a marriage partner, a child, or the… — Dianne Neal Matthews Copy Share Image
There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
“Not long ago I was watching the film A Story Worth Living with my sons. The film concludes with everyone enjoying a… — Brian Hardin Copy Share Image
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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
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I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,'… — Anthony Pilla Copy Share Image
“Okay then. That's what I'll do. I'll tell you a story. Can you hear them? All these people who lived in terror… — Neil Cross 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
“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to… — Stephanie Coontz 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
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr 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
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![“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age. She suffered with me in my…” quote by Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/samuel-smiles-2037_life-lessons_whilst-writing-all-this-i-have-had-in-my_2508705.jpg)
