Nostalgia Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia Time
“The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.” — Anatol Lieven Copy Share Image
“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...the reality of the days washed away the possibilities of the past, and time moved on.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We alter the past for the sake of the future, memories bending like light.” — Matt Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Memories are changeable depending upon the passage of time and the perspective through which they are viewed.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image