Nostalgia Quotes

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

The child I wasis just one breath away from me.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?

Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home.

Nostalgia is a longing for your home.

As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.

When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Sometimes It's awesome to be childish with your friend or partner.

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

When you have no future, you live in the past.

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

If nostalgia holds you hostage, the ransom is the present.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

One is always at home in one's past...

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.

You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.

Eraritjaritjaka albutjikaNkinjaba iturala albutjika ...His heart is filled with longing to turn for homeIn the heat of the sun to return home ...'Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia

Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.