Quotes About Nostalgia

The Flasher of '04.

There are no memories in a bottle full of wine.

The photo is black and white, but the memory is in color.

They change what they do not like,' said Jessold, referring to the singers. 'And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts for the basic truth of folk-song.

these days of exotic splendour may stand out in each lifetime like marble mileposts in an alluvial land

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Mister "I am not a Trekkie" gives me the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" salute as I walk away. Of course

Wesley Crusher will only live on in reruns. I will never get to bring him to life again, and that makes me a little sad. I'd like to try on his spacesuit and his oversized brain one last time and see how they fit now. After I posted that entry, the

I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living. The only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

The experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of 'pastness' that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Amintirea e un lucru ciudat. Nu vine ?i pleac? pur ?i simplu când vrea ea, ci po?i s-o aprinzi ?i apoi s-o stingi ca pe un vreasc de foc.

A chi gli chiedeva reminiscenze della sua gioventù, il professore rispondeva che non può esserci niente del genere e che i ricordi, a differenza delle calcografie e delle lettere, non riportano una data. Le cose si conservano nella memoria e solo con la riflessione una persona riesce a sistemarle in un ordine temporale.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

3 East 84th still looks both fitting and fresh. It also looks familiar: the limestone

When I sat on a camp stool in the garden in a black coat with a black flap hat I felt like a marble guest who had returned from times long past into a strange world.

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

C'est exaltant, comme d'ouvrir une cage, et c'est déprimant, comme de tirer sur le fil d'un vieux chandail.

Isabelle [era] la piccola prosivendola che dai tempi immemorabili della loro infanzia considerava il libro l'indispensabile materasso dell'anima.

Mais nous relisons surtout gratuitement, pour le plaisir de la répétition, la joie des retrouvailles, la mise à l'épreuve de l'intimité.

Les souvenirs sont comme les orphelins, leur avenir dépend de la famille d'accueil.