"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

Nostalgia, Longing, Change, Spring

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"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

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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

"I was adored once too."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Nostalgia, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"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

"All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Nostalgia, Silence, Running, Comfort

"I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Memory, Poetry, Decay, Art

Explore more quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

Existence

"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."

Imagination

"The lost glove is happy."

Emotion

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."

Emotion

"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence."

Philosophy

"Who grins in official circumstances?"

Social

"Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me."

Emotion

"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."

Mind

"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."

Time

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Poetry