Quotes About Nostalgia

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Let your memory be your travel bag.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Photography is a form of time travel.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.