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Quotes About Nostalgia

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
~ Wolfgang Puck
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
~ Lana Del Rey
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
~ Frank Crowninshield
I really miss my youth. I'm not being ungrateful, but there was an Atif who used to roam the streets, who didn't care whether his photograph was taken or not, who used to hang out without people staring at him. I miss that carefree life and would give anything for it, even if it only lasts a few moments.
~ Atif Aslam
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
~ Mick Jagger
'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
~ Andrea Bocelli
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
~ Anna Jameson
In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.
~ Graeme Souness
I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.
~ Robert Greene
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
~ Ross MacDonald
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.
~ Jerry Robinson
You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like that.
~ Sigrid Nunez
We can't get our youth back.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
~ Peter Cushing
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.
~ John Thorn
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
~ John Thorn
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
~ Mason Cooley
I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
~ John Cusack
I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
~ Eli Roth