Quotes About Nostalgia

I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back.

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.

I really miss you and I still have that one picture of you, where your eyes had no point of view, but pictures say nothing and this one will stay in my minds room.

Pluviophile -I remember how we began –you smiling, me falling, like the rain.

Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might, and get off at different times.Still, memory lingers.

Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.

Yet she never had the heart to reread the painful ending.

Algunas veces estaba muy triste, pero durante mucho tiempo nosotros pensamos que se curaría de esa tristeza cuando se decidiera a hacerse adulto, porque la suya nos parecía una tristeza como de muchacho, la melancolía voluptuosa y despistada del muchacho que todavía no tiene los pies sobre la tierra y se mueve en el mundo árido y solitario de los sueños.

Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti.

This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here

Allora io avevo fede in un avvenire facile e lieto, ricco di desideri appagati, di esperienze e di comuni imprese. Ma era quello il tempo migliore della mia vita e solo adesso che m'è sfuggito per sempre, solo adesso lo so. [Inverno in Abruzzo - Le piccole virtù]

Los fantasmas de nuestra infancia son indestructibles y no saben envejecer

Desde la ventana lo veíamos aparecer por el fondo de la calle, alto, con su rápida forma de caminar: venía comiendo cerezas y arrojando los huesos contra la pared con un tiro seco y fulminante. Para mí la derrota de Francia quedó unida para siempre a aquellas cerezas que él nos hacía probar cuando llegaba, sacándoselas una a una del bolsillo con su mano parsimoniosa y huraña.

And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.

I sometimes fancy, said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

and I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon.

with a heart as full of reminiscences about her dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied gravestones.

I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon.

But the past was not dead. Once in a great while, the thoughts that had seemed so vital and so active, yet had been put to rest so quietly, revived again.

And wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice Pyncheon-after witnessing these deeds, this bygone woe and this present happiness, of her kindred mortals-had given one farewell touch of a spirit's joy upon her harpsichord, as she floated heavenward from the House of the Seven Gables

These reminiscences and associations, together with the tendency to heart-break natural to a young man for the first time out of his native sphere, caused Giovanni to sigh heavily[.]

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.