859 Quotes About Nostalgia

But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty . . . And if we're talking about strong feelings that will never come again, I suppose it's possible to be nostalgic about remembered pain as well as remembered pleasure. And that opens up the field, doesn't it?

The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This dark night has won me to wander far away; old feelings gather fast upon me.

Americans are curious as a people in that we have a relatively limited history and yet endless nostalgia.

Once a thing is removed from your heart, a trace of it still remains.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

The trouble with music was that in some way it was too nostalgic...every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.