Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The world we knew won't come back. The time we lost can't get back. The lives we had won't be ours again.”

— Three Days Grace

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”

— J.K. Rowling

“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.”

— Jason Myers

“We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.”

— F. Sionil José

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can…

— Chris Kraus

“i had to cease to mourn what could never be & learn to make the most of what was possible. & i would begin…

— Cameron Dokey

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on,…

— Edward Kennedy

“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with us to…

— Philip K. Dick

“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.”

— Suzanne Johnson