Quotes About Nostalgia

The past was not always past enough here. It was like living in a house acquired for its clean angles and gleaming appliances, and discovering a bricked-up foor at which, faint but insistent, the sound of knocking could be heard.

He had been a shy, affectionate child to whom Céleste fed Milo straight from the tin. Sometimes she tortured him, singing, 'Dominiquenique-nique…' while slitting her eyes until his chin shook.

It was her street, her neighborhood, her life. She knew that someday in the future it would not be hers anymore. But she would remember it, she would treasure it, she would miss it. She would hold it in her heart. She knew that someday she would look back at this very moment and miss it....Never had life seemed more beautiful and more sad.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada, nada de lo pasado, podría reproducirse. Era aquella una sensación angustiosa de dependencia, le ponía nervioso la imposibilidad de dar marcha atrás en el reloj del tiempo.

Having a record of the past can make a great contribution to the quality of life. It frees us from the tyranny of the present, and makes it possible for consciousness to revisit former times.

With the approach of age the soul flies like a bird back to the days of childhood. Now those days shine bright and clear in my memory until it seems as if everything then must have been better, lovelier than in the world of today. In this rich and poor do not differ, for there is surely none so destitute but his childhood shows some glint of happiness when he remembers it in age.

Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w Tebach, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do Teb, gdy? nie ma na ziemi innego miasta podobnego do Teb. Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w ubogim zauÅ'ku, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do tej uliczki, z paÅ'acu cedrowego tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do glinianej lepianki; od zapachów mirry i drogocennych olejków tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do woni ognisk z bydlÄ™cego nawozu i ryb sma?onych na oleju.

K dlouhému vÄ›ku se druží ?asto zkalení zraku a sklon považovat dávnÄ›jÅ¡í doby za lepÅ¡í dneÅ¡ních.

Ed allora mi rivedevo per le polverose strade di Babilonia con Minea al mio fianco

No hay ciertamente nadie, por pobre que sea, cuya infancia no encierre algún destello de júbilo y de luz al evocarla en sus viejos días

He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again.

Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word of it will I alter, not my least action will I amend. O brittle pen, smooth papyrus, give me back my folly and my youth!

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

We put expensive new carpet in my home in 2003 and I still call it new carpet today. Chew on that one for a minute.

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

I wanted to put as much love and care into the taking apart of my wonderful mum's home as had been poured into bringing it all together in the first place?