Quotes About Nostalgia

How they love the old boxcar!

[Of Oakland, California:] There is no there there.

Oh sì, furono giorni infelici, i più felici della mia vita.

We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way to have said goodbye to our home, our country and all that we knew and loved.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Oh in youth, when hope has a long road ahead and the way of memory is short, [15] how sweet it is remembering what happened, though it was sad, and though the pain endures!

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

Ogni tanto ti capita ancora, di pensare a quelle che potrebbero essere buone idee per dei racconti, o per dei romanzi. Ma passano via quasi subito, senza nemmeno che ti ponga più il problema di annotarle – e infatti non porti più il taccuino, da tanto tempo. Vanno via leggere, queste idee; senza più dolore, senza nemmeno tristezza. Giusto un'ombra di malinconia.

America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last week. Not to face now or the future, but to face backwards.

Vous avez vécu dans le souvenir du bonheur, Karim. Rien n'empêche le bonheur comme le souvenir du bonheur

Scotland might as well be a foreign country to one such as myself. But then I often felt like that in England, too, as did many of us who had grown up in the colonies. It was as if we had returned to a home different from the one we had been holding in our heads all that time.

Lo que triunfa no es tanto la nostalgia del pasado cuanto la inquietud por la precariedad del futuro.

Poetry is a hook for memory

Here's the premise: you're in a bunker in the post-apocalyptic world. (I'm assuming that, by the date of publication, this will still be a "premise.") You've managed, almost magically, to bring with you the 10 movies, but only 10 movies, you'll be able to watch for the rest of your days.

Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.

To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Quisiera ser extranjero para irme a mi país".

Él apenas tenía pasado y el que tenía estaba todo lleno de ella.

Per me, non meno che per lei, più del presente contava il passato, più del possesso il ricordarsene. Di fronte alla memoria, ogni possesso non può apparire che delusivo, banale, insufficiente...Come mi capiva! La mia ansia che il presente diventasse "subito" passato perché potessi amarlo e vagheggiarlo a mio agio era anche sua, tale e quale. Era il "nostro" vizio, questo: d'andare avanti con le teste sempre voltate all'indietro.

Andare a caccia di ricordi non è mai un bell'affare. Qualunque cosa trovi sulla tua strada, rimane in ogni caso un nulla di fatto. Quelli belli non li puoi più catturare e quelli brutti non li puoi uccidere.

The worst thing,' Mena said, 'is to have to leave your hometown where everyone, even the stones, know who you are. It must be heartbreaking to leave them all behind and head off down the road. The bird that's most blessed has a home for his nest.

I libri non sono la riserva dei nostalgici che hanno tempo da perdere. Sono il segreto di chi di tempo ne ha così poco che è costretto a inventarlo.