Desire Quote by Douglas Adams

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight…

— William Wordsworth

“Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow, Its gloom and scarcity; Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow, Toiled quiet Memory. ’Tis she that from each transient pleasure…

— Charlotte Brontë

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

— Robert Hass

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of…

— Nicole Krauss

“Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they should enter…

— Marcel Proust

“...there is a kind of comfort to be gained from the passing of time, hour upon hour, day upon day, time falling like thick…

— Sarah Dunant

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees.  My…

— Emily Brontë

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has…

— Michael Ian Black

“These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs…

— Evelyn Waugh

“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's Welsh, and…

— Karpov Kinrade

“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a party, for…

— Walker Percy