Quotes About Nostalgia

I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.

Whether or not he was in it, whether or not he could see or touch it, he'd thought there would always be a FIllory out there somewhere. He loved knowing it was there. It anchored his sense of happiness, the way a distant stockpile of gold might underwrite the value of a paper bill.

The year I graduated from college was the year Richard Linklater released Slacker and Douglas Coupland published Generation X . A quarter-century later it's hard to recover a sense of how radical and powerful those works were at the time, but to me they felt authentically contemporary in a way that nothing else did.

at least he could always remember it the way he wanted to. The memories were safe, sealed forever in amber.

When he counted his change, he found only coins from the year he was born.

Now, even though things would never be the same, even though they'd never be together in the same way, at least he could always remember it the way he wanted to. The memories were safe, sealed forever in amber.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Music is like a drug; when you hear it, you have a vision. And that vision can change over time or remain the same. You know, that first time youre in love and you hear a love song and every time you think about it you have that vision of your special someone. And then two years later, after you broke up, youre at the bar. And you hear that song and you go, "Son of a bitch... Ill have a Jaeger."

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

The older I get the better I used to be!