On Longing Quotes

“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent itself. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.”
― Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

“This bourgeois conjunction of sign and signified is apparent in the dramatic rescue of the classics offered in advertisements for gilt-and-leather volumes of “The World’s Greatest Literature.”
― Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection