Nostalgia Quotes

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
David Benioff

You can`t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia.

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.
Giorgio Agamben

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
Amy Bloom

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
Adele Parks

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The good old times -- all times when old are good.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

It's all about wanting to go forward but still having to deal with nostalgia.
Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
Owens Lee Pomeroy

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. .

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.
William E Geist

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin Pierce Adams






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