Longing Quote by Shannon Celebi

“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

“Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't already been said?”

— Gail Hareven

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

— Paulo Coelho

“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say,…

— Shirley Jackson

“It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.”

— Samantha Young

“We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is…

— Valerie Martin

“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”

— Colum McCann

“All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy”

— Anatole France

“Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.”

— Kate Saunders

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth