Quotes About Nostalgia

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.

Memories pummeled Mariah as she climbed up the precarious wooden porch riddled with termite holes.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Grandfather's skirts would flap in the wind along the churchyard path and I would hang on.

A pity we cannot pick and choose what we remember.

Closing his eyes, he saw every smile that Rebecca had ever directed his way and knew a pang of regret. He would have liked to have held her in his arms one last time before he died.

Memories don't age

Honeysuckle. She smelled of honeysuckle. He thought about her pert little nose. He'd wanted to smile every time she tilted it to demonstrate her disdain toward him. If her obvious hatred for him hadn't been so great, hadn't hurt so badly, he might have smiled.

She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old... you wish for things from the past to

She gave him a whimsical smile. "It was long ago, Your Grace. And I do not hold a grudge. Although I must admit that sometimes, I miss having someone to sleep with." Reaching out, Sterling trailed his gloved finger along her bare arm. "We could remedy that. Tonight if you like.

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

You'd think wouldn't hurt a little one, but the pain is a great as if they'd been with you all your life. You can't remember what it was like before they touched your heart and you can never forget them

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

those were different times.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Just because you remember somebody real good doesn't mean they remember you back.

40 months of blossoming, months of transfiguration, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.

Tout ce qui fut sera pour peu qu'on s'en souvienne

Un beau soir l'avenir s'appelle le passé C'est alors qu'on se tourne et qu'on voit sa jeunesse.

La tête ailleurs et le cÅ"ur dans un autre siècle déjà...