Quotes About Nostalgia

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

The way sound travelled over a snow-covered forest was like nothing else. He missed that. Here in the city, often the sounds he heard only reminded him of the alien world he lived in.

There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

To me, life is memories and experiences.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.