Quotes about Nostalgia

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

I come from the era when that continental stuff, the skimmed yogurt and a croissant, was a healthy start to the day.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.

Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

and the evening was so beautiful, that it made a pain in my heart, as when you cannot tell wether you are happy or sad; and I thought that if I could have a wish, it would be that nothing would ever change, and we would stay that way forever.

While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.