Quotes About Nostalgia

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

The past is a funeral gone by.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.