Quotes About Nostalgia

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

How ironic that when they'd been married, she'd never thought of growing old with him. Yet now, years after the annulment, she should think of it with the yearning of an exile, for the homeland that had long ago evicted her.

He stopped and looked at her. "Your laughter is the same," he said. "I used to think you all sophisticated and worldly, until you laughed. You still laugh like a little girl getting tickled, all hiccupy and breathless.

You've changed, Fitz.' 'It's been eight years. Everyone changes.' 'I haven't changed.' The insight came to him like a match flaring. 'I can see how you've tried to remain the same. But no, you have changed, too. Once you thrilled to new horizons. Now all you want is to live in a monument to the way things might have been.

She picked up her spoon, gathered the last bit of trifle from her bowl, and consumed it with her characteristic mixture of gourmandise and wistfulness.

As she left, he began playing something as soft and haunting as the last roses of summer. She recognized it in two bars: Liebesträume. He and Mrs. Rowland had played it together that first night of their acquaintance. Even Gigi, incompetent musician that she was, could pick out that melody on the piano with one hand. Dream of Love. All that she ever had with him.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.

Burl Ives singing children's songs.

Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we "ate out.

Meetings are performances of what meetings used to be

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

A horse blanket, Mel? I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.' Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A horse blanket .

On good days we think about bad days. And on bad days we miss those good days as if they ever happened.

But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband greatly loved her.

Shirley Temple Black

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.