Quotes About Nostalgia

Isn't it said that memories only grow more beautiful with time?

The five brothers and sisters, and I myself, have gradually grown more adult, more polite, more guarded—have become, in short, "members of society"—and when we do on occasion meet, it's not the least bit fun.

The Venerable'—isn't that what you call yourself? Trying to find comfort in dreams of a past that will never come again, rather than hope for the future.

Those days, as I remember them now, were the last in which the dying embers of happiness still glowed.

I opened my trunk and almost burst into tears. At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore.

I missed my older sister, or people I used to be friends with, or people I hadn't seen in a long time. I cannot stand mornings because it seems I am always bleakly reminded of long-gone times, and people I used to know, and their presences feel eerily close, like the scent of pickled radish that you just can't get rid of.

I yearned for everything long gone

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,Brown paper packages tied up with strings—These are a few of my favorite things.

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay.I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Petersburg! I still possess a list of addresses,Which will help me to hear the voices of the dead.

Por suerte uno tiene madre, el buen lugar al que parece que siempre queremos volver.

encontré una tacita de porcelana que se había caído de un poste. Recordé que cuando eramos chicos las rompíamos con la honda y eso me dio un poco de tristeza. Sin saber por qué me la guardé en el bolsillo y la fui acariciando con los dedos mientras pensaba en los tiempos del colegio, cuando creía que tenía una vida por delante.

Time was when I could come home from my travels with many pretty old things stowed away among my shirts and socks. But that was long ago, before the German troubled the world, before we fell to turning every penny twice over, before the tax collector claimed the third rasher of bacon on the dish. Also it seems that the pretty old things grow rare as eggs of the great auk and hard to find.

I loved a girl once,' said he. 'Vorshula was her name. She has been lying in the graveyard of Seidewinkel six months now...

When a lovely flame dies,Smoke gets in your eyes.

Abington, Glass of '64. Jenny was a year behind me and Wayne.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Aimee saw more of the world before her first birthday than most people do in a lifetime. I just wish I'd been sober for more of it. I was there physically, but not mentally. So I missed things you can never do over again: the first crawl, the first step, the first word. If I think about it for too long, it breaks my heart.

Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.