859 Quotes About Nostalgia

He didn’t like remembering such things, but by now he was used to the way life was punctuated by such moments, which sent hooks into parts of the past one might prefer to forget.

Country roads, take me homeTo the place I belongWest Virginia, mountain mamaTake me home, country roads

As always happens, we thought we were very far from being happy then, and now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place and painting them another color, and putting them back where they no longer hurt.

I think nostalgia is just a soul’s way of missing a thing, and like long-distance love, nostalgia grows deeper with time until the reality of what a thing actually was gets blurred to the point you miss the idea of the thing more than the thing itself. I like the idea of hot cocoa more than drinking it.

They weren’t happy memories because your father and I were never happy together. Even if we had been briefly and occasionally happy, everything got sullied, ripped up, and destroyed. But people don’t love each other only for happy memories. At a certain point in life, you realize that you just love the memories.

I don't want to look back anymore. I'm ready to accept that my existence will sometimes contain pain. No more trying to escape, either through nostalgia or a memory chair. They're both the same fucking thing.

I found myself yearning for the time, no, not the time, for the life that has gone by.

El sentimiento de paz que provoca desprenderse de la nostalgia es inigualable a cualquier otro. Cuando no sólo te aterrar mirar cara a cara a los fantasmas del pasado, sino que a prendes a mirarlos con el carro de todo lo compartido, nuestra alma deja de temblar pro fin. Acaricias las cicatrices que luces on orgullo, porque sabes que detrás de ellas sólo hay una lección aprendida, y conquistas un equilibrio que creías imposible.

Nostalgia, when time stands still and memories roll backwards.