859 Quotes About Nostalgia

We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We’re either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you’ve lived. Be happy you can feel it—it’s a good sign.

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Mengenali Engkau ya Allah sebagai Rabbku merupakan kenangan manisku di dunia.

There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.

I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having at least minimal rights and protections.

It was a time of youth and war, and there was never so much love around.

If we are beset by problems, we have always been beset by problems. There never was a golden time past of smooth sailing only.