859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.… Dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity—“I don’t like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.

nostalgia makes the past dress up in prettier clothesthan those the present is wearing

De esas personas no vivía ninguna. No tenían ni siquiera tumbas. No eran sino historias que contaba una mujer vieja y sola, y cuando un día ella ya no estuviera en este mundo, entonces quedarían definitivamente olvidadas, desvanecidas para siempre en el tiempo como si nunca hubieran existido.

Para Max su abuela era vieja desde hacía una eternidad, él no podía imaginarse que hubiera sido joven alguna vez. Pero así era. Una vez fue una niña llamada Rosl Feldmann, su cuerpo no había estado siempre encorvado y lleno de arrugas, había tenido sueños y temores y un porvenir. Pero ahora ese porvenir ya había quedado muy atrás.

Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…

هناك أشخاص في العالم يريدون التحدث إلى شخص ما حول أي شئ

When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.

Elodie was a nostalgic person, but she hated the charge. The word was terribly maligned. People used it as a stand-in for sentimentality, when it wasn’t that at all. Sentimentality was mawkish and cloying, where nostalgia was acute and aching. It described yearning of the most profound kind: an awareness that time’s passage could not be stopped and there was no going back to reclaim a moment or a person or do things differently.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood-- she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.