Quotes About Nostalgia

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

The fundamental things apply As time goes by.

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.