Desire Quote by Marjorie Garber

OLD AGE: It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

— Wandini

“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”

— James Rozoff

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much the recollection…

— Simon Wroe

“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be…

— Neil Postman

“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

“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

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost”

— Kevin Arnold

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory…

— Lydia Millet