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Quotes About Nostalgia

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
~ Paul Valery
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
~ Rob Sheffield
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
~ William Landay, Mission Flats
I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
~ Alfonso Ribeiro
One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
~ Andy Rooney
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
~ Ben Stein
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
~ Carter Burwell
I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
~ Morgan Freeman
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.
~ Paulette Alden
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
~ Peter Shaffer
When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.
~ Priscilla Presley
Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
~ John Frusciante
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
~ Virgil Miller Newton
When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.
~ Vittorio Grigolo
I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.
~ James Garner
I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.
~ James Packer
I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
~ Jaron Lanier
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.
~ Kate Stoltzfus
The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.
~ Katy Perry
Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life.
~ Mary Randolph
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
~ James Gates Percival