859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Nostalgia is missing what might come back.

È per smaltire un carico di nostalgia che sei andato tanto lontano!

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...

Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth. And if this opinion of theirs is false, as it is most of the time, I am persuaded that there are various causes that lead them into this deception.

The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.

Her first love was like lavender, delicate and melancholic.

Thought can no longer keep itself in a critical equilibrium. It has to be spread eagled between violent nostalgia and violent anticipation.Of course we should dream of all women. There isn't one of them who wouldn't be offended if a man didn't dream of all of them through her.

Though we tend to remember bad events as well as we remember good ones, the negative coloring of the misfortunes fades with time, particularly the ones that happened to us. We are wired for nostalgia: in human memory, time heals most wounds.

No memories. No pain. I mean screw nostalgia. I don’t want it. Take it back!