History Quote by Kay S. Hymowitz

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“resonate deeply in modern imaginations”

— Mary Mycio

“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could be rejected…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.”

— Michael Dwinnell

“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like a rare…

— Steve Duno

“the greatest events – they are not our loudest but our stillest hours. Not around the inventors of new noise, but around the inventors…

— Neitzsche

“[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.”

— Georg Simmel

“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

“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

“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