Nostalgia Quotes

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

Nostalgia is missing what might come back.

The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

I miss it like an ex-con misses the other inmates.

Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos.

I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.

I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like,

These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

Nostalgia-- that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

We’d all agreed that we’d outgrown jumping rope, but Shady had given me such a nice gift of a skipping rope, and when there’s nothing better to do, I guess you go back to what once felt good.

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

I was born in the age of "alas".

There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.

That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.

Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a different person, and it was years ago. Sounds so stupid. I was stupid.

Dachux: It’s not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.