Nostalgia Quotes

“My most salient memories”

— Marya Hornbacher

“I have Immortal longings in me.”

— William Shakespeare

“Memories are priceless.”

— Jordan Hoechlin

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

— Andre Benjamin

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.

— Chesney Hawkes

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

— Gulzar

The memories stacking up.

— Atreyu

Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.

— Tyler Winklevoss

Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart.

— Vickie Guerrero

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

— Alexandre Dumas

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

— Samuel Richardson

“Nostalgia an excuse not to live, kills us all in the end.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

— Jean Baudrillard

“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”

— Donna Tartt

“Nostalgia, she knew, has the power to make you smile and also to make you cry.”

— Swati Kumar

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

— Albert Einstein

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

— Sophie Kerr

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

— Nicholas Haslam

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

— William Gilmore Simms

“It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a…

— Harriet Evans

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with…

— Henri Barbusse

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of…

— Allison Winn Scotch

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.…

— Libba Bray

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever…

— Tatjana Soli

“More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of…

— William Shakespeare

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia…

— Roger Caillois

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's…

— Chuck Klosterman

Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things Im missing out on right now, and all the people who…

— Anonymous

“A longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake…

— Zondervan Publishing

“Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and…

— Ken Hollings

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,…

— Tosca Lee