Quotes About Nostos

as one by one the scents and sounds and names of long-forgotten places come gradually back and beckon to us.

Nostos, yes. The act of homecoming, a safe arrival. Of course, mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery. A nostos also means a song about a homecoming.

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

Et, comme Ulysse, il rentrera chez lui et vivra vieux (j'ignore s'il est mort aujourd'hui) – seul inconvénient pour en faire un héros de grande diffusion.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

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