Nostalgia Quotes

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book" "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are" "The beautiful uncut hair of graves." "The true picture of the past flits by " "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning." "Hold on, we're going home " "I'm really too young to be feeling this old " "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things will return, including the plan to abolish the past" "It's not the same, though, 'cause it's hard to let you go " "The nostalgia for things we have lost is more bearable than the nostalgia for things that never were" "Every passion borders on the chaotic but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories " "I remember you as you were in the last autumn "