859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a fragile and tender anguish, basically different, more intimate, more human than the other pains we had endured till then [...] Nostalgia is a limpid and clean pain, but demanding; it permeates every minute of the day, permits no other thoughts and induces a need for escape.

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.

Nostalgia was diagnosed [as a medical illness] at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body internal and external well-being were treated together...Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.

Su corazón de ceniza apelmazada, que había resistido sin quebrantos a los golpes más certeros de la realidad cotidiana, se desmoronó a los primeros embates de la nostalgia.

I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles.

This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)

,,Ir nenoriu sau geresnio nieko,tik prie žemės prisiglaust brangios,būti tėviškės arimų slieku,mėlyna rugiagėle rugiuos.

La nostalgia è sempre un sentimento sleale, si nasconde dietro una scala antincendio e ti sgambetta quando vuole. Sarebbe una spalla perfetta per un comico, se si potessero conoscere in anticipo le sue battute.

For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces...And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.