Camus Quote by Albert Camus

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with…

— Karen Fowler

“Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.”

— Keith Donohue

“Sometimes, you think you have forgotten everything, that the rust and dust of the years have destroyed all the things we once entrusted to…

— Anonymous

“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there in your…

— Henry Miller

“I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an…

— Susan Hill

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so acutely before.…

— Sarah Hall

“It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this,…

— John A. Ashley

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.…

— Emil Cioran

“Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them…

— Irene Nemirovsky