"Nostalgic" Quotes from Famous Books
... reaches the stage where a physician is or might be called in, it becomes nostalgia. The latter term suggests morbid or chronic suffering. A healthy boy away from home for the first time is homesick. An exile who has wasted himself with pining for his native land is nostalgic. "His was more than ; it had so preyed upon his thoughts that it ... — The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor |