Nostalgia Quote by Carson McCullers

“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick…

— Carson McCullers

“In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don’t know what…

— Milan Kundera

“Nostalgia is a longing for your home.”

— Will Advise

“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach,…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I have gone…

— Grace Paley

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance…

— Bryant A. Loney

“When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company…

— Erri De Luca

“What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia,…

— Paco Ignacio Taibo II

“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

“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part of an…

— Don Delillo Underworld