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Quotes About Nostalgia

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.
~ Joey McIntyre
She had felt homesick. But she was at home.
~ Johann Hari
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
~ Kurt Cobain
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
~ Lawrence Welk
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
~ Alan Shearer
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
~ Ann Wilson
Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
~ Gil Hodges
I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.
~ Saoirse Ronan
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots
~ Smokey Robinson
He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.
~ Tony Kornheiser
I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.
~ Michael Robotham
RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.
~ Miguel Ferrer
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
~ Nicholas Sparks
What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
~ Richard Ford
Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
~ Deb Caletti
... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
~ Nicholas Lea
Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.
~ C.W. McCall
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
~ Herb Caen
What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
~ Gabriel Byrne