“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .” DesirePurposeLostViewsEmotionLongingPoint Of ViewNostalgiaPracticalsUseless Book:Us Source: Us
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.” WayDifferentFactsEmotionMy FamilyLongingAbsenceAdoptedActuality Author:Andrea Barrett
“Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.” FeelsIndividualEmotionBreakWonderfulCapacityDestructionInstrumentsLongingTortureDissatisfactionExplodingPing Book:The Book of Daniel: A Novel Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel