Sentimental Yearning Quotes

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.

We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.

History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience.

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.