Quotes About Nostalgia

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house.

months earlier with Kristin

Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you.

Ruthie handed me a leather-bound notebook and said she wanted me to fill it with everything I could remember.

Say what you will about 'Miracle on 34th Street'; I can take my grandchildren to it. If I had a maiden aunt, I could take her, or my ma and pa if they were alive.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.

When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

I miss my coach. I love my coach. I miss Chuck Noll.

I miss being out on the road.

Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

I miss baseball.