Desire Quote by John Green Download Open image “Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed...” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Nostalgia Time
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to. — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image