The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
—Robertson Davies
There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We’d be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think ‘it will be okay if it can just be like this forever’ but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
—Nina LaCour in Hold Still
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
—Jason Myers in The Mission
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
—Shannon L. Alder
Believe me, I'd go back to the way things were in a minute if I could. But it's just not an option.
—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key
The history of art is the history of revivals.
—Samuel Butler
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.
—Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor
Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.
—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country
In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.
—John Corey Whaley in Noggin