"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Nostalgia, Memory, Time, Reflection

"You think you can get rid of things, and people too-leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nostalgia, Past, Memories, Habits, People

"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Nostalgia, Longing, Home, Memory, Nature

"I was adored once too."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Nostalgia, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Nostalgia, Summer, Memory, Music, Longing

"Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Nostalgia, Home, Comfort, Connection

"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nostalgia, Nature, Romance, Imagery, Emotion

"Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Nostalgia, Childhood, Home, Memory, Pleasure

"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Childhood, Christmas, Bells

"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Autumn, Memory, Love, Nature

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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

"You think you can get rid of things, and people too-leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back."

"I was adored once too."

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

"Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind."

"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."

"Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life."

"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."

"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

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"Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die."

"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men."

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

"There's no glory like those who save their country."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"A day may sink or save a realm."

"By blood a king, in heart a clown."