Quotation Explorer - 'Nostalgia'

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. - W. Somerset Maugham
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia. - Truman Capote
She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone. - Donna Lynn Hope
Deja que toda tu nostalgia emigre, todos tus cabos sueltos; comienza, todos los días en el parto. - Carlos Fuentes
If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself... - Luigina Sgarro
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. - Peter De Vries
Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home. - Nikki Rowe
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future - FM-2030
NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain. - Christian Lorentzen
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing. - Richard Rohr
Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás jamás. - Alessandro Baricco
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on. - Joss Whedon
Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past - Steve Maraboli
Jon me enseñó qué quiere decir nostalgia. Nostos en griego, me dijo, es 'regreso', y algia, 'dolor', así como mialgia es dolor de los músculos, así mismo nostalgia es el dolor del regreso. Todos los viajes, todos mis viajes, son viajes de regreso, así dijo un poeta de mi tierra". - Héctor Abad Faciolince
That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia. - Shreya Gupta
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. - Pier Paolo Pasolini
I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived. - Alesandro Bariko
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. - Shannon L. Alder
To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. - Perry Nodelman
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia. - Zeena Schreck
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. - Mike Norton
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad. - John Larkins
Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory. - Steve Maraboli
Nostalgia tells it like it wasn't. - Emily Hunter McGowi
Nostalgia dies in the pit of my throat from lack of exercise and I buried the word six feet under the pronunciation of hopeful tomorrows. - Taylor Patton
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known - Carson McCullers
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. - Novalis
En este momento me siento triste. Pero cuando estoy tranquilo, el recuerdo de mi hogar colma mi imaginación. Con esa ilusión me duermo. La nostalgia no es un padecimiento excesivamente profundo en la vida. - Ōgai Mori
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