Quotes About Nostalgia

When we show a friend a city one has already visited, we feel the same pride as when we point out a woman whose lover we have been.

remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth.

La sua giovinezza gli riapparve portando tutti i ricordi soavi, che sono profumi piuttosto che pensieri. Da quel passato al presente c'era un abisso. Ma la fantasia ha il volto dell'angelo e del baleno; essa varca i mari nei quali abbiamo corso il rischio di naufragare, le tenebre dove si sono perdute le nostre illusioni, gli abissi che hanno inghiottito la nostra felicità

maintenant tu ne peux plus m'offrir ni joies, ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris ! adieu !

Ah c'est que tu as vingt ans, toi, et que tu peux oublier le passé, j'en ai cinquante, et je suis bien forcé de m'en souvenir

Je vous souhaite une vie assez calme, assez heureuse, et assez remplie pour qu'il n'y ait place pour mon souvenir

Lorsqu'on fait voir à un ami une ville qu'on a déjà vue, on y met la même coquetterie qu'à montrer une femme dont on a été l'amant.

Through the vistas of the years every age but our own seems glamorous and golden. We yearn for the yesterdays and tomorrows, never realizing that we are faced with Hobson's Choice … that today, bitter or sweet, anxious or calm, is the only day for us. The dream of time is the traitor, and we are all accomplices to the betrayal of ourselves.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet.

The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of Strawberry Fields Forever or Satisfaction and am instantly back in time. It doesn't matter where I am, suddenly I'm walking through the woods, I'm in my best friend's room ...

You don't forget the people you love, she told him. That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete

Some things are best remembered the way you want to remember them, like this road, these stars, this girl right beside him as they walk into the center of the cold night, looking straight ahead.

Franny stood up with the intention of leaving. When Hay took her arm, she glared at him. But he was looking at her the way he used to, when he was the only person in the world who really knew her.

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

I'd lived my whole life without a friend. I'd just have to remember how to do that again.

I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss every day From Facebook post

And then, when Kylie looks back at her house, she has the strangest feeling. The house seems lost to her in some way, as though she were looking at a memory, a place she used to live in and will never forget but one she can't go back to, not anymore.

being young will slip through your hands and you will be left standing there, you who were once so young, not recognizing yourself or your life. "I'd like a mirror