Quotes About Nostalgia

a dream is only a memory of the future

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'.

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

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.