Boys Quote by Mervyn Peake

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells…

— Laura Esquivel

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The days may not be so bright and balmy...yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected…

— Northern Advocate

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow…

— Robert Musil

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

— Sophie Dahl

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes…

— Anonymous

“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once more those…

— Albert Camus

“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a gentle sadness,…

— William Todd Schultz

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way…

— Michael Bierut

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like…

— Wynton Marsalis

“I still dream in pictures and color, always the world of my childhood. I see the purple Judas trees at Easter lighting up the…

— Deborah Lawrenson