Quotes About Nostalgia

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Memories just get richer with time.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

MOST OF US have harbored a fantasy wherein we return to confront a lost first love, and, in that reunion, we have become better looking, thinner, richer, utterly desirable— so desirable that our lost love realizes instantly that he has made a terrible mistake.

Queen of the Starlight Ballroom

Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Bennet, Scarlet O'Hara, Dill and Scout, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot – were more real than the real people I knew.

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase the good old days has passed from cliché to self-parody.