Quotes About Nostalgia

that window and to the right. I'd seen several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But I needed something more accurate, more effective. And

this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can't remember if you're recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.

We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

Nous voulons retourner dans l'ancienne demeure Où nos pères ont vécu sous l'aile d'un archange, Nous voulons retrouver cette morale étrange Qui sanctifiait la vie jusqu'à la dernière heure.

We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace. Gradually

Heimwee heeft niets met esthetisch gevoel te maken, het is ook niet eens verbonden met een gelukkige herinnering, je hebt heimwee naar een plaats om de eenvoudige reden dat je er hebt gewoond, of je het er nu goed of slecht hebt gehad, het verleden is altijd mooi, en de toekomst trouwens ook, alleen het heden doet pijn, je draagt het met je mee als een lijdensgezwel dat je altijd vergezelt tussen twee oneindigheden van vredig geluk.

He does not know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is a brief one.

pero no es el hecho de haber sido feliz en un lugar lo que hace dolorosa la perspectiva de abandonarlo, es simplemente el hecho de abandonarlo, de dejar atrás una parte de tu vida, por muy tediosa o incluso desagradable que haya podido ser, de ver que se hunde en la nada; en otras palabras, es el hecho de envejecer.

la nostalgia no es un sentimiento estético, ni siquiera está ligada al recuerdo de la felicidad, se siente nostalgia de un lugar simplemente porque uno ha vivido allí, poco importa si bien o mal, el pasado siempre es bonito, y también el futuro, sólo duele el presente y cargamos con él como un absceso de sufrimiento que nos acompaña entre dos infinitos de apacible felicidad.

La nostalgia no es un sentimiento estético, ni siquiera está ligada al recuerdo de la felicidad, se siente nostalgia de un lugar simplemente porque uno ha vivido ahí, poco importa si bien o mal; el pasado siempre es bonito, y también el futuro, solo duele el presente y cargamos con él como un absceso de sufrimiento que nos acompaña entre dos infinitos de apacible felicidad

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

Even more, they cannot play this role in front of another being. And yet they ought to be able to do so: for this dissolution of being is a tragic dissolution; and we all continue, moved by a painful nostalgia, to ask the other for what we ourselves can no longer be; to seek, like a blinded phantom, this weight of being that we no longer find within ourselves. This resistance, this permanence; this depth. Of course, everyone fails, and the loneliness is excruciating.

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral  que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

Anderzijds waren er ook dingen in de buitenwereld waar ik aan gehecht was, een uitstapje naar de G20-supermarkt bijvoorbeeld, die had veertien verschillende soorten hummus, of een wandeling in het bos [...] ik was te ver van mijn kindertijd afgedwaald, nou ja langdurige opsluiting was misschien niet de beste oplossing, maar ik geloof dat hummus de doorslag gaf.

Como una planta de maíz arrancada de su terreno, Una vieja concha olvidada por el mar, A orillas de la vida Me vuelvo hacia ti, que te atreviste a amarme Ven conmigo, partamos, me gustaría reencontrar Las huellas de la noche

nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

No es el futuro sino el pasado el que te mata, el que vuelve, el que te atormenta y socava y acaba efectivamente contigo.

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I'm not pining for nostalgia back in the '50s and '60s, that isn't it. But that sensibility about how we were grounded here is so important. For instance, another American that was born in Waterloo was John Wayne. We were a very patriotic "yay rah rah America" city and nation and I think that's what America's looking for again.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

while you try to reconcile the place before you with the place in your memory,