“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Mignon McLaughlin278
American journalist 1913–1983Related quotes
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Variant: The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”
Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels
Source: First Among Sequels
Florence King (1936–2016) American writer
"Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
“Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit.”
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Assault on Time, 1981.
“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Edmund White (1940) American novelist and LGBT essayist
Source: City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s