Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days… — Audrey Niffenegger
. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia,… — Michael Chabon
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be… — Mary Balogh
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,… — Denis Johnson
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get… — Robert Fulghum
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens… — David Benioff
Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the… — Don DeLillo
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had — Mignon McLaughlin
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back. — Sue Monk Kidd
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of… — Amy Bloom
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from… — Edmund White
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson McCullers
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around… — Loren Eiseley
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the… — Rob Sheffield
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It… — Rob Sheffield

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