Quotes about Nostalgia

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

Every step she took seemed in fact to carry her farther from the region where, once or twice, he and she had met for an illumined moment and the recognition of this fact, when its first pang had been surmounted, produced in him a sense of negative relief.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.