Quotes About Nostalgia

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

There is something in the scene reminiscent of Pip's return to old Joe at the forge in Dickens's Great Expectations. So much is felt but unspoken in that moment when Joe beholds the little boy he once knew and then, in his humble rural accent, says, "You're a gentleman now, Pip.

Americans have an outsized tendency to romanticize the past, to see previous eras as magically halcyon and idyllic, and of no era would this be truer than the eighteenth century in Britain.

One of the great artists of this period, Barnett Newman, wrote about his response and that of his fellow artists: "We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been devices of Western European painting." In their attempt to

It feels like every reference he makes, every little word, catapults me back there, to a place that doesn't really exist anymore.

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

sudden urge to reread something I loved as a

Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, "Goodness, everything was better in the old days." And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn't true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.

Alt ist, was man vergessen hat. Und das Unvergeßliche war gestern. Der Maßtab ist nicht die Uhr, sondern der Wert. Und das Wertvollste, ob lustig oder traurig, ist die Kindheit. Vergeß das Unverglißliche nicht! Diesen Rat kan man, glaub ich, nicht früh genug geben.

Wie kann ein erwachsener Mensch seine Jugend nur so vollkommen vergessen, dass er eines Tages überhaupt nicht mehr weiß, wie traurig und unglücklich Kinder bisweilen sein können. Es ist nämlich gleichgültig, ob man wegen einer zerbrochenen Puppe weint oder weil man, später einmal, einen Freund verliert.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

When I saw her figure standing on Ulv Hunger's ship, I realized she was my first love. Oh, do not laugh! Go and ask your grandfather who was his first love, and when he answers, 'Your grandmother', ask him again. He will smile, for such is the pain of first love that it leaves no bitterness behind.

Cherishing the sweet reminiscence of the early hours of life can be experienced as real enchantment: Those hours when fantasy is given wings and imagination allows us to sail with our paper boats through the stern roads of our constricted life. ( "Paper boats forever" )

Nothing's more comforting than the sound of rain when you're not in it." (Tell Me Everything pg. 192)

Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,

He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.

I will never forget you, Hollyleaf.

It's been moons since anyone attacked my tail," he'd rasped wistfully.

Fallen Leaves nodded. "Go well," he murmured. "I will never forget you, Hollyleaf.

Clear Sky's shoulders drooped. "I just want us to be together, like we used to be. Fluttering Bird wants it too." Thunder felt a surge of sympathy. Was his father still grieving for the young sister he'd lost? "What if you're wrong?" "I'm not.

I dream that night. Part of me knows it's a dream, but that doesn't matter. I'm not about to wake up. Because in dreams, sometimes you can meet cats who are no longer with you.

I would like to stand again in the place where Feathertail lies.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

I remember every stone, every tree, the scent of heather... Even when the thunder growled in the distance, and the wind swept up the valley in fitful gusts, oh, it was beautiful, home sweet home.