Nostalgia Quote by Milan Kundera

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

— Milan Kundera

“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or not, there…

— Ryan Gelpke

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“...we are meant to be ephemeral, like the brilliant sparks from a fire shooting up into the dark, we are not meant to last,…

— Suki Fleet

“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose…

— Steve Maraboli

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have…

— Epictetus

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.”

— Tehya Sky

“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days,…

— Boris Pasternak