Quotes About Nostalgia

No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

Our past has gone into history.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.