Quotes About Nostalgia

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

My heart is drenched in wine. You'll be on my mind. Forever

O dearest Warsaw of my youth, Which encompassed the whole of my world! If only for a moment and in the dark I wish to catch a glimpse Of the ashes and the flowers Of that good past.10

While my father was out boozing, she'd read to me by the stub of a candle, a thread of soot twisting upwards from its pinched, meager flame. By her voice alone, she could raise up the old stories from the bones of their words and--lilting between shades of comedy and melodrama--turn the dreary space around me into a stage for my wildest imaginings.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . . . only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others— lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived— days issued out of the future , hours that will never be.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

?sa-Mesih'i her zaman be?enirim: küçük çocuklar?n futbolcular? be?enmesi gibi. Adam?md?r. Ortaokulu birlikte okusayd?k, bana çok yarar? dokunurdu o y?llarda.

Et ce souvenir brusquement évoqué met un nuage de mélancolie dans la gaîté de ce joli matin.

Venise n'est plus qu'une carte postale en couleurs." 1912

Most people have given up on politicians. After all, politicians have been promising to return us to the glory, wealth, and order of the twentieth century ever since I can remember.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.