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Quotes About Nostalgia

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
~ John Green
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
~ John Green
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Angel of the backward look.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
~ John Guare
No appetite. No sensation in a dry stomach. No desire. No orchids sweet enough to taste. Not the sort of woman to eat sandwiches on a bus. At least not the sort of woman who would eat in the dark. Not anymore.
~ John Hawkes
We and the trees and the way Back from the fields of play Lasted as long as we could. No more walks in the wood.
~ John Hollander
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
~ John Irving
you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender
~ john j geddes
I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again
~ john j geddes
This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness
~ john j geddes
Europe doesn't matter anymore. You know, Europe is basically a giant museum.
~ John J. Mearsheimer
La gente que pretendía que las cosas volvieran a ser como antes solía ser tremendamente ingenua.
~ John Katzenbach
El pasado es una confusión fugitiva de recuerdos peligrosos y dolorosos. ¿Por qué iba a querer regresar?
~ John Katzenbach
Still thinking of you. Dr. S.
~ John Katzenbach
Cuando se tiene la edad que tengo yo, todo trae recuerdos. Uno pasa más tiempo mirando hacia atrás que hacia delante.
~ John Katzenbach
Todavía pienso en ti. Doctor S.
~ John Katzenbach
La gente intenta siempre revivir momentos que en su memoria son mejores de lo que fueron en realidad, evocar emociones que, en realidad, es mejor que permanezcan en el pasado
~ John Katzenbach
Parte del problema de crecer y hacerse mayor es que los mitos de la infancia desaparecen.
~ John Katzenbach
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
~ John Keats
Touch has a memory.
~ John Keats