French philosopher Quote by Anonymous

“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”

— James Rozoff

“[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.”

— Georg Simmel

“And though I am not nostalgic for what we did have, I am hopeful about life being filled with everything we didn’t.”

— Chelsea Fagan

“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

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic for something you never experienced?”

— Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose…

— John Grogan

“Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

“Nostalgia is not for the God who is missing to us, it is a nostalgia for ourselves, for we do not sustain ourselves; we…

— Clarice Lispector

“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.”

— Diane Johnson

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard