Quotes About Nostalgia

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.

Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen würden.

Hier in Buenos Aires träume ich auf Spanisch von Menschen, die nicht sprechen und mich nicht hören - und immer von der Stadt, wie ich sie früher kannte, niemals, wie sie heute ist.

There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

A 'Wild Goose Chase' is sound, but a bit old–fashioned—pictures of clerical life in the fifties

No pedía ya la libertad, sino la memoria

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

La realtà sfuma e tutto diventa memoria. Perfino tu, a poco a poco, hai cessato di essere un desiderio e sei diventato un ricordo.

È uno strano dolore... morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

Es un dolor extraño. [...] Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás nunca (p.102)

Nunca oí ni siquiera su voz -Es un dolor extraño. Quedo. -Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás jamás.

C'est une souffrance étrange. Doucement. -Mourir de nostalgie pour quelque chose que tu ne vivras jamais.

Mourir de nostalgie pour quelque chose que tu ne vivras jamais.

Es un dolor extraño. Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás nunca.

1) - E' uno strano dolore. Piano. - Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.