859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Candy bar nostalgia puts us all on the same page.

When we talk of memory of food, we generally assume that nostalgia is a phenomenon that occurs late in life - like Proust being transported to his youth by a madeleine dipped in lime-blossom tea. But food memory is there from the start. Even babies have nostalgia!

I didn’t realize the last time was the last time. And if I had, I would’ve made it more special.

But if she doesn’t learn nostalgia now, how will I ever teach herregret? I have to get her ready for the future.

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.

Personal essays are often nostalgia-fused narratives written by authors with authenticity fetishes.

She wondered if they would taste the same over the mere application of ingredients in the correct amounts, without the memory of Karinne explaining how to do it. . . . Logically, she knew it should taste the same regardless. Food was a matter of practical application. But to those who ate, it was full of memories, the significance of 'delicious as always.' It seemed impossible that it could taste the same if it was not made with equally tactile memories going into the cooking.

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.