Quotes About Nostalgia

What's so awful is that one can't tear up the past by its roots. One can't tear it out, but one can hide one's memory of it.

But that mimosa grove--the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since--until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.

She was soon ready, and they kissed tenderly in their hallway, between lift and stairs, before separating for a few minutes. 'Tower,' she murmured in reply to his questioning glance, just as she used to do on those honeyed mornings in the past, when checking up on happiness: 'And you?' 'A regular ziggurat.

compuse un madrigal al negro humo de sus pestañas, al pálido gris de sus ojos inexpresivos, a las cinco pecas asímetricas de su nariz respingona, al vello rubio de sus miembros tostados; pero lo rompí y ahora no puedo recordarlo.

He was beloved not for any essential ability but for those unforgettable digressions of his, when he would remove his glasses to beam at the past while massaging the lenses of the present.

Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

Uncle Dan was feeding.

She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago

the book like a sleigh left my lap...

Moth holes had appeared in the plush of matrimonial comfort.

Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten.

I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say. The poems ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. —Langston Hughes

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

People are absolutely haunted by [history]. You can see it at the swap meets.

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you?

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

Og jeg vet ikke om vi visste det, at vi satt der og skålte for noe som var ved å gå mot sin slutt, noe som starta en eller annen gang og som allerede var ved begynnelsen til veis ende. At Beatles skulle oppløses, at Jim Morrison skulle dø, at vi en gang skulle lete etter hverandre over hele Europa.

When Joe and I got married two years ago, we were both super strictly Paleo and we were shredded for the wedding! All of our wedding pictures consequently turned out fantastic. I wish I could say I was as thin now as I was then!

Zamani niye kaziyorsunuz boyle? Birakmiyorsunuz ki gecmis gecmisin koynunda uyusun.

When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped her chest... "Some things happened yesterday." "I nodded. I could feel how that was going to happen. It was already happening.