Nostalgia Quotes

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning." "Hold on, we're going home " "I'm really too young to be feeling this old " "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things will return, including the plan to abolish the past" "It's not the same, though, 'cause it's hard to let you go " "The nostalgia for things we have lost is more bearable than the nostalgia for things that never were" "Every passion borders on the chaotic but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories " "I remember you as you were in the last autumn " "We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart" "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" "Sometimes the good old, slow way doesn't create the excitement that the fast ones do." "It is a curious thing that at my age one begins to dread the dropping of acquaintances. Like a tree, which it is said must be spared any more cutting at its roots, one feels that one cannot bear to lose any more of one's friends." "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem a stink a grating noise a quality of light a tone a habit a nostalgia a dream" "People disappear, but their memories remain." "I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place" "It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place" "All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another" "The town was paper but the memories were not"