Body Quote by Honore de Balzac

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

— Florence King

“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be…

— Neil Postman

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping.…

— Gregory Maguire

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

— Robert R. Blake

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

— Stephanie Coontz

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled…

— Joseph Addison

“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past,…

— Marjorie Garber

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much the recollection…

— Simon Wroe