50+ Nostalgia Quotes
"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories." - Florence King; read more nostalgia quotes below
Nostalgia Quotes
Nostalgia means many different feelings depending on every person. It could be summarized as the feeling of sorrow but also of love and tenderness that we feel whenever we think about something or someone that we no longer have or that is no longer with us. Here you will find a compilation of the best and wisest nostalgia quotes for you to be able to cope with it and feel understood.
1"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."
2"We were together. I forget the rest.”
3“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
4“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
5"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."
6"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."
7“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
8“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
9“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
10"We are made of so many words. Stories. Reasons. Dreams. Days that have left us. Days that have remained."
11"A photograph is the pause button of life."
12"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."
13"Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind."
14“I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.”
15“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks."
16"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
17"I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days."
18“This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.”
19"Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true."
20"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."
21“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.”
22“I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.”
23“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
24"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
25"Music and books: the original time-machines."
26"Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past."
27"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."
28"Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious."
29"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
30"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
31“Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion; it entails the act of recalling complicated memories of bygone days.”
32“Real museums are places where time is transformed into space."
33"Always stand up for what you believe in... Even if it means standing alone."
34"Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place."
35"People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male."
36"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."
37"Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual."
38"Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly."
39"I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me."
40"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
41“Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.”
42“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home.”
43"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia."
44"To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the common place."
45"Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming."
46"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
47"I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in."
48“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
49"I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous."
50"Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you’ve lived. Be happy you can feel it it’s a good sign."
51“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
52“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
53"The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the p"rer, the richer the word and the secret."
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