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  Nostalgia Quotes - We take it for granted that life moves forward   “For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.” ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway   “What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and a voice that had been bawling in my ears, incessently, fatuously for days beyond number, had suddenly been cut short; an immense silence followed, empty at first, but gradually, as my outraged sense regained authority, full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds: for he had spoken a name so familiar to me, a...

  Nostalgia Quotes - It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds   “How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly   “Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood   “...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.” ― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians   “In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ” ― Brooks Atki...

  Nostalgia Quotes - I wish I could sing   “When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.” ― Karl Lagerfeld   “The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.” ― Lenny Bruce   “This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.” ― Franny Billingsley, Chime   “I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night thinking about the things that you've suddenly b...

  Nostalgia Quotes - It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back   “Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.” ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold   “It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story   “Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena   “Strange, how ...

  Nostalgia Quotes - Nostalgia is a necessary thing   “I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.” ― Groucho Marx   “I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.” ― Kris Kristofferson   “We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.” ― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay   “Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped t...