Strange to find Winston Churchill and Sylvia Plath both choosing the word 'roller,' in both its juggernaut and wavelike declensions, for that scene. Yet this was only a twentieth of the armed strength of the regular German Army before mobilization. For five hours the immense defilade continued. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time - the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. Clouds of cavalry, avalanches of field-guns and-at that time a novelty-squadrons of motor-cars (private and military) completed the array. The Future of Nostalgia Quotes Showing 1-9 of 9.nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. Reminded one more of great Atlantic rollers than human formations. Condiia dragostei este s caute, nu s descopere, s vrea s tie, fr s afle, s fie ritmul unei continue micri spre un orizont mereu vzut, dar mereu îndeprtat. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. Quotes tagged as 'nostalgie' Showing 1-19 of 19. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry. nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. We live on a planet well able to provide a decent life for every soul on it, which is all ninety-nine of a hundred human beings ask.“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. But it seems too bad - this universal craving to escape what could be a rich, productive, happy world. Well, I have lived most of my life I can be robbed of only a few more years. When it does, I leave to your imagination the last few hours of madness that will be left to us all the countless moments that now make up our lives suddenly ripped apart and chaotically tangled in time. Find Your Next Book To Read With Goodreads Android. Man is disturbing the clock of time, and I am afraid it will break. (Not that its bad, but CTR did it perfectly and with characters I had zero nostalgia for.). Even while I lived in London, though, I romanticised the city and the life I lived there or rather, I knew it was a beautiful, romantic time of life, and that, like youth itself, the circumstances that had come so magically together would never be repeated, and that one day I. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. It is difficult, when we look back on certain periods of our lives, not to succumb to romanticism and nostalgia. In the moments when this happens - when the almost universal longing to escape is greatest - my incidents occur. Quotes tagged as 'nostalgia' Showing 61-90 of 1,200 Everyone has two memories. I am utterly convinced that this terrible mass pressure of millions of minds is already, slightly but definitely, affecting time itself. Yes, there is a craving in the world like a thirst, a terrible mass pressure that you can almost feel, of millions of minds struggling against the barriers of time. Even our larger magazines, book publishers and Hollywood are beginning to meet the rising demand for this kind of escape. Entire magazines are devoted to fantastic stories of escape - to other times, past and future, to other worlds and planets - escape to anywhere but here and now. Our newsstands are jammed with escape literature, the very name of which is significant. Never before in all my long life have I heard so many people wish that they lived 'at the turn of the century,' or 'when life was simpler,' or 'worth living,' or 'when you could bring children into the world and count on the future,' or simply 'in the good old days.' People didn't talk that way when I was young! The present was a glorious time! But they talk that way now.įor the first time in man's history, man is desperate to escape the present. “Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have.
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