Born Quote by Thomas Pynchon

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of…

— Nicole Krauss

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through…

— Soren Kierkegaard

He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.

— Pete Wentz

He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as…

— Nicholas Sparks

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine…

— Robert Cormier

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

— Albert Camus

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.”

— Douglas Coupland

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

— Elbert Hubbard

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and…

— Clare B. Dunkle