My nostrils smell, but not to you. Oh, they have no odor, unless you count the scent of nostalgia, which is what they always smell like.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

Ero felice, non ci si accorge mai di esserlo e mi chiesi perché l’assimilazione di un sentimento così benevolo ci trovi sempre impreparati, sbadati, tanto che conosciamo solo la nostalgia della felicità, o la sua...

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

I know what it’s like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it’s like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

NOSTALGI = TRANSENDENSINostalgi sama dengan transendensi betul, ini permainan kata lagi-lagi kata asing tapi apa sih yang tidak asing tapi itu hanya ilusi kembali pada nostalgi berarti kehilangan yang dulu-dulu dibayangkan hanya tidak mencekam lagi,...

I’ll remember you… I remember everyone I’ve lost.

One is always at home in one’s past…

A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can...

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...

I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It’s about his policy. It’s about those creative business decisions that he made. It’s not about the building.

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

The past must remain tangible only from a distance and in its truest form, not appearing anymore precious than it was, lest it make the present unbearable. Memories are only for reminding which must never...

I’m your phantom dance partner. I’m your shadow. I’m not anything more.

If I could show you what’s in my heart; I am very certain that you wouldn’t mind. Letting go and holding on is what I am trying to do, I pray you are not feeling...

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it...

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

You may say, But wasn’t this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

tenho saudades de casa, do meu universo de referências, que por estas terras não as há ou não consigo encontrá-las. Provavelmente quando voltar, depressa terei vontade de voltar a seguir viagem e lá continuarei a...

how sad and bad and mad it was – but then, how it was sweet

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

(…) El arte necesita nostalgia. No se puede ser artista si no se ha perdido algo.

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....

The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings...

Despite your best efforts and intentions, there’s a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia. Eventually, you move on, latch on to another group of friends. Once...

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn’t looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but...

I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy,...

…the nostalgia for things that weren’t yet lost.

Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people’s interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun...

Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and...

Eraritjaritjaka albutjikaNkinjaba iturala albutjika …His heart is filled with longing to turn for homeIn the heat of the sun to return home …’Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia

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.

She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellieswe often talkedabouthowwe’d like todieandwe allagreed on thesamething;we’d alllike to diefucking(althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking)and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longerwe think moreabouthownot todieandalthoughwe’rereadymost ofuswouldprefer todo italoneunder thesheetsnowthatmost ofushave fuckedour livesaway.

nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation forWeak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected.Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very...

Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that’s how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories.

The moveless man moves along like the mist. The mist doesn’t hide, but all things are hidden in it—including the fog. Love is the only thing that moves the moveless man, and he hasn’t the...

You see, when you’re young and foolish it doesn’t matter where you may be, you always think that you’ll be happier somewhere else.

When you have no future, you live in the past.

It seemed like it was always autumn in this field – it was fitting really. Everything was shaded with the bronzes and yellows of faded pictures from an old photo album, it was a realm...

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia,

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

…Alright, Mandy Valems,” Alecto agreed.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.