859 Quotes About Nostalgia

I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film, inspiring my own creative imagination, the headphones rendering the experience intensely personal, as though it were all happening inside my own head.

I looked at the other squares of yellow that climbed like ladders up the sides of the building. I thought about the people inside, those who are still there. Then I thought about all those who were gone and the others who have come to take their places.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

Where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?