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Quotes About Nostalgia

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.
~ Unknown
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
~ Alain de Botton
I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.
~ Emmy Rossum
Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.
~ Thomas Campbell
The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone
~ William Wordsworth
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
~ Stephen King, Carrie
The familiar is by far the most beautiful.
~ Marty Rubin
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
~ Babe Ruth
Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.
~ Gloria Gaither
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.
~ Barry Humphries
The best memories are those which we have forgotten.
~ Alfred Capus
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
~ Chris LeDoux
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
~ Barry Humphries
My first crush was my brothers best friend.
~ J. Lynn
The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.
~ Jonah Hill
You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.
~ Lauren Groff
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
~ Joe DiMaggio
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
~ Mark Twain
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
~ Al Bernstein
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
~ Mark Twain
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
~ Rudyard Kipling