859 Quotes About Nostalgia

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past

The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots.

... ностальгия ведь отнюдь не эстетическое чувство, она даже не связана со счастливыми воспоминаниями, мы испытываем ностальгию по какому-то месту просто потому, что там жили, хорошо ли, плохо ли - не важно, прошлое всегда прекрасно, будущее, кстати, тоже; причиняет боль только настоящее, и мы носим его в себе, словно некий гнойник страданий, ни на минуту не покидающий нас в промежутке между двумя бескрайними полосами чистого счастья.

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.

It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)

The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That’s what seemed real now – the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way.

A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own – a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.