#nostalgia

Pourquoi nier l’évidente nécessité de la mémoire? ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#nostalgia #love

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#nostalgia #recollection #love

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. ↗

— Graham Swift

#life #love #nostalgia #time #inspirational

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts? ↗

— Sage Steadman

#nostalgia #home

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#nostalgia #school #love

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#modernity #nostalgia #men

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#inspirational #moving-on #nostalgia #nostalgic #past-and-future

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#american literature #back #forever #leave #literature

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. ↗

— David Cassidy

#i #nostalgia #play #shows

I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#dreaming #homesickness #nostalgia #dreams