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quotes by topic Nostalgia

" I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. "

Negative , Nostalgia

" I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity. "

Negative , Nostalgia

" That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. "

Land , Nostalgia

" I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. "

Old , Nostalgia

" Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. "

Nostalgia , relationships

" These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top. "

Nostalgia

" The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. "

Memory , Nostalgia

" He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible. "

Memory , Nostalgia

" 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 "

Nostalgia

" If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency. "

Nostalgia

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