Living Quote by Iris Marion Young

“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

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”

— Roxane Gay

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

— Anonymous

“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

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“Memory, personal and historical, is often accompanied by moralistic sentiment. Nostalgia is an act of escapism and self-indulgence, but to forget the past is…

— Ezra Glinter

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Nostalgia is a longing for your home.”

— Will Advise

“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

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense…

— Carrie Brownstein

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose…

— Simon Newcomb

“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