859 Quotes About Nostalgia

It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

It's not regret for staying. It is nostalgia for something that we believe is true in our illusion, something we will never have. And if we touched it, we would soon realize that it was not what we dreamed of.

El exiliado mira hacia el pasado, lamiéndose las heridas; el inmigrantemira hacia el futuro, dispuesto a aprovechar las oportunidades a su alcance.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence.

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.