The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: future memory past nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: change permanence nostalgia memories impermanence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again. —Jason Myers in The Mission More about this quote Tags: life memory nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: reality ignorance clear-seeing past nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: change control nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The history of art is the history of revivals. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: history art nostalgia revival Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: memory change nostalgia sweetness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness. —Isabel Allende in My Invented Country More about this quote Tags: sadness vice nostalgia tenderness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: past thinking nostalgia reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email