Quotes About Nostalgia

The years went by too quickly, that was the trouble. By the time you figured out that the times you were living were the best, they were over and nothing more remained than a few blurry snapshots and a handful of memories.

It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.

Het verleden is altijd tegenwoordig. (The past is always present.)

Every memory reopens lost time and invites us to again take up the situation that it evokes.

There must be a presence of the past which is absence.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot

And in the past there is so blessedly nothing for us to worry about. Everything is settled.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the "past" has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.

Youth is given. One must put it awaylike a doll in a closet,take it out and play with it onlyon holidays.How to Be Old [1963]

The summer that I was ten–Can it be there was only onesummer that I was ten?The Centaur [1958]

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

A man didn't easily forget his last first kiss.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.