Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

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

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past

I eat the same way Doc Brown fuels the DeLorean at the end of Back to the Future.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.