No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past. Only something so momentous as to drive from his consciousness all thoughts of before and after could have propelled him forward. And with his eyes fixed on the past, he had no choice but to continue along its trajectory.
Natsume SōsekiStichwörter: nostalgia
Journey to the end of day,
Come the fire-fly,
Come the moon;
Say a prayer for God's good grace
And sleep with lore upon your face.
Stichwörter: nostalgia
Advice is a form of Nostalgia
Mary SchmichStichwörter: advice nostalgia sunscreen
...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath that, something else: once an asswipe, always an asswipe.
Jennifer EganStichwörter: nostalgia
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Emil M. CioranStichwörter: nostalgia
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...
William FaulknerStichwörter: nostalgia memories
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
Sherwood AndersonStichwörter: nostalgia modernity machines
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: humor politics food dramatic murder nostalgia satire funny mysteries theater secrets drama acting actors theatre plays opera dinner fantastic i-love-the-theater i-love-the-theatre opera-house playwrights theatre-of-the-absurd
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 with him.
Bill BrysonStichwörter: parents nostalgia death middle-age
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
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