Nostalgia Quote by Georges Rodenbach Download Open image ““It is distance that creates nostalgia.”” — Georges Rodenbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia
“Distance can create longing. It can open up the gap into which all must fall.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“...Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I had looked into the distance so long that I hadn't seen what was near at hand. If we don't cherish those who stay… — Janice Clark Copy Share Image
“There’s something about distance, being removed from what’s familiar, that lets things happen.” — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
“Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one thing that… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.” — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
“Separated by so much more than distance and lifestyle, even their memories of a shared childhood have faded from their minds.” — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets, the houses,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by the two… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
