Desire Quote by Susan Stewart

“…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.”

— Enrique de Hériz

“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable…

— Hala Alyan

“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.”

— Anonymous

“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

“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

“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

— Kristen Ashley

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities…

— R.A. Salvatore

“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past,…

— Marjorie Garber

“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different…

— Svetlana Boym

“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we…

— Simon Reynolds