Hurts Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“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

“Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like…

— André Aciman

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

— Robert Hughes

“It’s a strange feeling, this nostalgia in advance, nostalgia for things I’m still experiencing every day and that often, right now, annoy me.”

— Scott Kelly

“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all:…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Powerful forces led me to the Hammers and then to the neighbors and suggested that the qualities I witnessed in their lives – strength,…

— Archie Lieberman

“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…”

— Thomm Quackenbush

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

— David Lynch

“The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and the small…

— Virginia Woolf

“Wild rambling roses had started to appear on the sides of the path; creatures of habit making their yearly bids between the bracken and…

— Kate Morton

“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever I was,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera