Quotes About Nostalgia

He closed his eyes now and imagined that he was talking to his mother on the phone. "Oh, hi, Mom. How are you? Me? Oh, I'm great. I'm just hanging out in the eighteenth century. Behave myself? Don't worry, Mom, George Washington and a few of his friends are here to see to that. Home? I don't know when I'll be back, but I will come back, I promise.

There's a girl here and She's almost you...

I think records started getting better again because everyone was dropping that tedious pose that there was no past. You could hear that The Clash were raiding their record collections for anything that they could turn into new songs.

There was that reference to Allan Sherman's trip to a summer camp, in "Goon Squad." Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

Din tot ce-ai fost, nu mai ramîne decît o adiere patetica.

Melancholy is a kind of boredom refined, the feeling that one does not belong to this world. It's a sensation of irremediable exile, without immediate cause. Melancholy is a feeling deeply autonomous, also independent of the failure of those great personal successes. Nostalgia, on the contrary, still clings to something, even if it is only to the past.

En un mundo sin melancolía, los ruiseñores se pondrían a eructar.

Boredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor's appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries whose end we now have in view. That appetite, a veritable nostalgia for hell, would not fail to ravage the race following us and to make it the worthy heir of our misfortunes.

Muzica este o arheologie a memoriei.

De câte ori lunec?m pe partea amintirilor, de atâtea ori suferim din cauza vieÈ›ii.

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

La nostalgia expresa en un nivel afectivo un fenómeno profundo: el progreso hacia la muerte mediante el hecho de vivir. Siento nostalgia de lo que ha muerto en mí, de la parte muerta de mí mismo. [...] La nostalgia revela el significado demoníaco del tiempo, el cual, a través de las transformaciones que realiza en nosotros, provoca implícitamente nuestra aniquilación.

A? da toate peisajele din lume pe cel al copil?riei mele.

Ultima nostalgie: a te duce la fund cu soarele

Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.

In vain the West seeks a form of final agony worthy of its past.

If, as we grow older, we scrutinize our own past at the expense of 'problems', it is simply because we handle memories more readily than ideas.

Bach was quarrelsome, litigious, self-serving, greedy for titles and honors, etc. So what! A musicologist listing the cantatas whose theme is death has remarked that no mortal ever had such a nostalgia for it. Which is all that counts. The rest has to do with biography.

I remember a place I have been only if I have had the luck to experience utter misery there.

Nostalgia de um mundo sem "ideal", de uma agonia sem doutrina, de uma eternidade sem vida... O Paraíso... Mas não poderíamos existir um instante sem enganar-nos: o profeta em cada um de nós é o grão de loucura que nos faz prosperar em nosso vazio.

If the French have loaded nostalgia with too much clarity, if they have deprived it of a certain intimate and dangerous prestige; Sehnsucht, on the other hand, exhausts what is insoluble in the conflicts of the German soul, torn between the Heimat and the Infinite.