“What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.”
Nostalgic feeling
Nostalgic Quotes — page 13 of 136
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“Remembrance of things past.”
“I was a teenage godmother.”
“And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”
“The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”
“I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.”
“I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.”
“I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!”
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
“I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.”
“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”
“I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.”
“I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.”
“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”
“If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.”
“The best thing about London is Paris.”
“Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.”