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“What she missed the most about the person she'd been, Maya realized, was her hope for a coming world that turned out never to have been possible. She was nostalgic for an imaginary future.”

Quote by Graham Moore

Book:The Holdout

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Graham Moore is a talented screenwriter known for his profound insights into complex human nature and his sharp focus on social issues. His works have achieved significant success in both film and theater, earning him widespread acclaim from audiences and critics. more

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“With the approach of age the soul flies like a bird back to the days of childhood. Now those days shine bright and clear in my memory until it seems as if everything then must have been better, lovelier than in the world of today. In this rich and poor do not differ, for there is surely none so destitute but his childhood shows some glint of happiness when he remembers it in age.”

Childhood Nostalgia

Book:The Egyptian

Source: The Egyptian

“As always happens, we thought we were very far from being happy then, and now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place and painting them another color, and putting them back where they no longer hurt.”

Nostalgia Beforetimes

Book:The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

Source: The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

“Roland was one of the lucky hedonists to survive El Diablo which swooped in to kill so many of them So many deaths ruined any sense of nostalgia, sadly, remembering the past also meant Remembering the Dead”

Death Memories Nostalgia

Book:Girl, Woman, Other

Source: Girl, Woman, Other

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.”

Book:L'Assommoir

Source: L'Assommoir

“One passes imperceptibly from one scene, one age, one life to another. Suddenly, walking down the street, be it real or be it a dream, one realizes for the first time that the years have flown, that all this has passed forever and will live on only in memory; and then the memory turns inward with a strange, clutching brilliance and one goes over these scenes and incidents perpetually, in dream and reverie, while walking a street, while lying with a woman, while reading a book, while talking to a stranger . . . suddenly, but always with terrific insistence and always with terrific accuracy, these memories intrude, rise up like ghosts and permeate every fiber of one's being. Hencefoward everything moves on shifting levels—our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life. A parallelogram in which we drom from one platform of our scaffold to another. Henceforward we walk split into myriad fragments, like an insect witha hundred feet, a centipede with soft-stirring feet that drinks in the atmosphere; we walk with sensitive filaments that drink avidly of past and future, and all things melt into music and sorrow; we walk against a united world, asserting our dividedness. All things, as we walk, splitting with us into a myriad iridiscent fragments. The great fragmentation of maturity. The great change. In youth we were whole and the terror and pain of the world penetrated us through and through. There was no sharp separation between joy and sorrow: the fused into one, as our waking life fuses with dream and sleep. We rose one being in the morning and at night we went down into an ocean, drowned out completely, clutching the stars and the fever of the day.”

Life Dream Youth Nostalgia Maturity Wholeness Reverie Dividedness

Book:Black Spring

Source: Black Spring

“There were no sounds tonight. Only the whistle of the wind coming through the alleys. There's something lonely about October with the summer sounds all gone and the cold winter ahead.”

Fall Memories Summer Winter Nostalgia Nostalgic Alleys Apartment Life Changing Seasons Summer Sounds

Book:Nothing to Fear

Source: Nothing to Fear

“Funny thing is, the sounds are always the same. Even though different people come and go, the sounds stay the same.”

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Book:Nothing to Fear

Source: Nothing to Fear

“Hasta la memoria de una alegría tiene su amargura, y los recuerdos de un placer su dolor.”

Nostalgia Sad Truth

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again...”

Friendship Nostalgia Commencement

Book:Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“Technology was gnawing into relationships, community, identity, the commons. Maybe nostalgia was just an instinctual response to the sense that materiality was disappearing from the world.”

Technology Internet Nostalgia

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Source: Uncanny Valley