859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Some stories are your flowers. Others are your meat and bread. This story was neither flowers nor meat nor bread. It was extra, and it was impossible. It was their shared cursed inheritance.

...and yet even then, within themselves there had been a strange nostalgia, as if they had already begun to live on the memory of their love.

Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here.

The past is a terrible place to live, but some people can make a home nowhere else.

Sometimes the good memories are just as painful as the bad ones.

Chodziłam po domu i mamrotałam coś do siebie. Kiedy człowiek jest starszy, takie zajęcie sprawia przyjemność. Rozprawiasz się, z kim chcesz, wygłaszasz repliki, które nie przyszły ci do głowy w danej chwili, uśmiechasz się na miłe wspomnienie, odtwarzasz rejestr zdarzeń, ilekroć masz na to ochotę, żeby zrozumieć, dlaczego sprawy potoczyły się tak, a nie inaczej. Całe twoje życie jest tam, z tobą, w tym samym pokoju. Twoje plany są raczej planami z przeszłości niż planami na przyszłość.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.