Milan Kundera, Ignorance Quotes
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?
If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.
an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.
It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.
Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.