Quotes About Nostalgia

You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot.

Allie sighed. It was an old, yellow sound, like turning pages.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever, love with them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.

What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief... but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.

the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days.

I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.

Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory.

We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we'd live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.

Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!

The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts.

Memories are sweet, cherish it...

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Capture yesterday's moments, they are future memories

Best memories never hurt, with good memories an individual can pass his whole life without depending on others...

Memories. Created in a moment, remembered for a lifetime.

It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones.