Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. — Tana French
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time… — Gregory Maguire
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being… — Linda Lael Miller
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the… — Diane Arbus
Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into… — Sloane Crosley
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give… — Julian Barnes
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for… — Carson McCullers
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. — Julian Barnes
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the… — Julian Barnes
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died… — Bill Bryson
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection… — Dan Chaon
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of… — Milan Kundera
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. — Vladimir Nabokov
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of… — Azar Nafisi
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a… — Charles Yu
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth,… — Jean Baudrillard
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and… — Ian Mcewan
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited… — BrenÃ© Brown
Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood… — Rick Riordan

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