Nostalgia Quotes · Page 38

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

— Norman Davies

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

— D. H. Lawrence

It is impossible not to miss someone who was once a part of your life.

— Anonymous

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

— Miuccia Prada

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

— Kat Von D

“In fondo, dice qualcuno, in fondo la paura non è che la sorella cattiva della nostalgia.”

— Paolo Zanotti

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

— Abbie Hoffman

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is…

— C.S. Lewis

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“I can’t go on like this, I told myself. And You can’t possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. …

— Joanna Brooks

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the…

— John Haines

In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of…

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“It seemed like it was always autumn in this field - it was fitting really. Everything was shaded with the bronzes and…

— Mike Jackson

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“As Edna walked along the street she was thinking of Robert. She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had…

— Kate Chopin

“Before, I thought we could write about life only when we had recovered from our wounds; when we were able to touch…

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be…

— Cillian Murphy

“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that;…

— Michael W. Twitty

“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel…

— Fernando Pessoa

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

— Sonia Orwell

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

— Russell M. Nelson

“Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around,” said the poet Adrienne Rich.”

— Alfie Kohn

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

— Frederick Buechner

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing…

— Bryant H. McGill

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

— Frank Herbert

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

— Andre Aciman

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

— John Vanderslice

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

— Saint Augustine

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

— Lisa See

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

— Bill Vaughan

I get flooded with nostalgia, I do. And it's okay. It's a good thing.

— Joe Maddon

“Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.”

— Jack London

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

— Shirley Temple

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

— Robert Del Naja