Nostalgia Quotes

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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Robert Browning

Love Reflection Nostalgia The Past

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even the smallest particle of the surrounding world wascharged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, andone would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by thehigh, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, somany and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like firefliesin the perfumed heat of summer night.

Life Poetry Nostalgia Regret

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary preci

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

Time Truth Love Heartbreak Sadness Illusion Nostalgia Torture The Past

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to

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 much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life Love Pain Solitude Nostalgia Regret Losing Desperate

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Humor Funny Inspirational Nostalgia

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the s

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Life Time Love Nostalgia Inspiration

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.

Inspirational Present Nostalgia Moving On Betrayal Past And Future Nostalgic

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notic

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Joe Abercrombie

Life Nostalgia Good Times

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come b

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, b

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

Life Love Memory Loss Appreciation Nostalgia Remember Carl Sagan Ann Druyan

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'wi

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

Charles Dickens

War Humor Funny Nostalgia Irony Torture Fortresses Medieval Middle Ages

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talk

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Future Nostalgia

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in thing

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.

Peace Chaos Nostalgia

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful t

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. It is largely because of the books, films and reminiscences that have come between that the war of 1914-18 is now supposed to have had some tremendous, epic quality that the present one lacks.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be w

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.

Memory Nostalgia Carrie

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by th

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

Life Age Loss Flight Nostalgia