Nostalgia Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Even though [our] experiences may cause pain, suffering, and sorrow, we have this absolute assurance: ‘No pain suffered by man or woman upon the…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire…

— Samuel Butler

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even…

— Albert Camus

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection…

— Samuel Johnson

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment,…

— Eckhart Tolle

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that…

— Alain de Botton

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

— George W. Bush

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute…

— Samuel Beckett

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

— Anonymous

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The enjoyment of life, especially the second half of life, is greatly compromised if we can’t see, if we can’t think, if our kidneys…

— T. Colin Campbell

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace