859 Quotes About Nostalgia

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks."Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks)"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,And youth is cruel, and has no remorseAnd smiles at situations which it cannot see."I smile, of course,And go on drinking tea.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

فلتجعلي حبّنا ثورة، وجمهوريةُ حبّي التي فزتُ بها بشرعيةِ عينيكِ، انزلي كما نزلوا للساحاتِ واسقطي حكمي، وابحثي لكِ عن عاشقٍ جديدٍ، وحاكميني بحجةِ التقصير.

Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling.

If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the then and you can never catch up to what's happening now, which means that now is pretty much doomed to extinction.

Any time gone by was better.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.

Gabrielle se méfie du passé, elle s'en défend ; à son âge, cinquante-huit, bientôt cinquante-neuf ans, une femme a tout à craindre de son passé, les regrets, les remords, la nostalgie, le goût de fer froid des occasions manquées et la marée montante des illusions perdues.