Nostalgia Quotes

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it’s just a natural human response to loss.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else’s nostalgia.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn’t what it used to be?

Everyone wants to live in tomorrow and vacation in yesterday.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.

I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.

There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Nobody could understand the past except the people from it.

The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. They had become stories.

Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true.

I tend not to fathom the best times of my life until they are gone.

If they Brought you back the old cafes, who will bring you back the old friends?

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn’t yet over.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time, not the person.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity

What’s wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.