Nostalgia por saber que muito provavelmente nunca mais regressaria ali. Esta constatação confrontava-me com os limites da minha própria existência, com aquilo que não terei tempo de fazer ou voltar a fazer ao longo do...

Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road… old buildings, old people on a front porch… strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago,...

It shocks me how I wish for…what is lost and cannot come back.

we always knewthat good times camewith termination contractseven if we weren’t quite readyto sign it.

I’m suspicious that what’s behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, … world’s biggest cocktail party.

There comes a time in your life, when you are left with too many yesterdays and very less tomorrows. When you can look back and relive all the golden moments of your life. You would...

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God’s good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few...

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Toate mi s-au părutcu neputinţă de suportat, ca şi cînd ai vrea să ţii mîna pe un fier înroşit.Nici nu ştia că exişti cînd şi le-a făcut, iar faptul că ai pierdut momenteatît de preţioase...

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated ‘wholeness’ of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes....

What was our life like? I almost don’t remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

—No hay nada como una mujer de cabeza fuerte para hacerte feliz de estar vivo.

Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at...

I have to tell you about these things from the past, because they are so important. The really important things usually lie in the distant past. And until you know about them, if you’ll forgive...

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Let’s enjoy these aimless days while we cam, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

NW” is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia — for old movies, old songs, buses they don’t ride anymore — is less a salve than...

And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid...

I have lit the samovar and poured myself tea in a cup with a few sugar cubes in it, my love is gone and I am all alone singing a melody out of tone ~

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the...

If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children’s bedrooms, it may be because their children are the monsters. Consider what kind of world they are growing up in....

Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him...

It’s one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you’re boozing with Yankee writers in Martha’s Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It’s something else to go home and visit with...

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand’s reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it – they had seen the world – but even George...

We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was...

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

The past will disappear if we forget we existed”.

I feel nostalgia for the show in a way, … I’d always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never thought that when I felt the show ending or when I wanted to leave...

The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past...

The elevator wasn’t empty; it was full of fragrance. The perfume that lingered smelled like my past. Starting tomorrow, to focus on the future, I’m going to close my nose with a clothespin. One day,...

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...

…and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her…

I see the old even as I am looking at the new–the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It’s almost like being in two places at the same time.

It’ll solidify him in western Pennsylvania. He gets to capitalize on the nostalgia for Pittsburgh and the Steelers. Anyone who’s ever waved a Terrible Towel is a Lynn Swann voter.

Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year’s time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding....

You can go other places, all right – you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home

for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly.

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

It is said that when a person is experiencing death, and when shards of life begins to disintegrate from his mortal body, he starts getting a flashback of his entire life right in front of...

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the...

While I was there, the song reminded me of here. But now that I’m here, the song reminds me of there. But that’s neither here nor there.