Nostalgia is a longing for your home.
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
(n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.
Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...
The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - nostalgia is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
She walked down the lawn and surveyed the world as they'd both seen it--the wild limbs of the leaning apple tree, the golden-brown evening sky, the black silhouettes of the mountains. The trunk and th...
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.
Din splendorile cafelei de odineoară, neschimbat rămăsese doar mangalul.
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you...
I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
Nelle notti d’inverno, mentre faceva cuocere la minestra nel camino, soffriva la nostalgia del caldodel suo retrobottega, il ronzio del sole nei mandorli polverosi, il fischio del treno nel sopore del...
Now, obviously, all old people seem cool whenever we see black-and-white images of their younger selves. It's human nature to inject every old picture with positive abstractions. We can't help ourselv...
People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.
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