Paradise Lost Quote by Clarice Lispector

“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

“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable…

— Hala Alyan

“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.”

— Anonymous

“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities…

— R.A. Salvatore

“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all…

— Joseph Fink

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or…

— Anonymous

“…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.”

— Enrique de Hériz

“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

Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return

— Milan Kundera

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

— Milton S. Eisenhower

“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent…

— Susan Stewart

“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

— Fernando Pessoa