“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

“Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”

“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She is experiencing a brand-new feeling called nostalgia. That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life […] from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these feelings.”

“Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”

“Most people suffer in love because of attachment. We are interested in getting a net return on our investment. –Unplugging the Patriarchy”