Nostalgia Quote by Sarah Ockler

“It is distance that creates nostalgia.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”

— Emil Cioran

“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.”

— Jason Myers

“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I have gone…

— Grace Paley

“… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home—someday, somehow. … ”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I think I’ve got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that…

— Jennifer Niven

“...Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you.…

— Milan Kundera

“It does not matter where I am. The sky is always mine. Windows, ideas, air, love, earth, all mine. Why does it matter if…

— Sohrab Sepehri

“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick…

— Carson McCullers

“Nostalgia an excuse not to live, kills us all in the end.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“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