Top 83 Memories Nostalgia Quotes
#1. Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko
#2. Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life's path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow's road.
Susan Lendroth
#3. We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
Adrienne Rich
#4. It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.
John A. Ashley
#5. 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
#6. I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
Alberto Manguel
#7. There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.
Diane Meier
#8. I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.
Jasika Nicole
#10. Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.
Steve Maraboli
#11. The mists of nostalgia color memory.
Ken Tucker
#12. We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.
B.J. Novak
#13. As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass.
Willa Cather
#14. 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.
Jarod Kintz
#15. Her grandparents' house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#16. And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It was the only place where she felt she had an identity and a history behind her.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#17. Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
Agnes Varda
#18. She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.
Richard Ford
#19. Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
Amy Bloom
#20. Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
Gregory Benford
#21. The objects and the flavor of our national nostalgia are not random. They draw on the memories of a particular group of Americans who have exercised an extraordinary power over the nation's self-image.
Yuval Levin
#22. 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 things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it.
Jane Smiley
#23. College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike every day. Free to define ourselves with statement attire. Good thing.
Parul Wadhwa
#24. So what is it about evenings that makes you pensive and thoughtful? Is it the slightly wafting cold breeze that beckons you on a journey of soulful serenity? A cornucopia of feelings, emotions and nostalgic charm that reverberate into the mystic beats of a faraway drum.
Avijeet Das
#25. Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.
Avijeet Das
#27. Westcott lived in the most perilous zone between waking and night - the shadowlands of watching and waiting, questioning and listening. He lived in the glade of remembrance." - from Who Has Known Heights
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#28. What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in the mind
to which, with nostalgia or dread, you must ever return.
Gregory Maguire
#29. Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
Doug Larson
#30. 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
#31. It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.
Daniel Abraham
#32. Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn't changed that.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#33. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King
#34. If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories ... this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.
Hannah Nordhaus
#35. The present moment is the only dimension of existence worth inhabiting, because it is the only one available to us. (...)
Yet we live virtually all of our lives somewhere between memories, and aspirations, nostalgia and expectations.
Luc Ferry
#36. 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 was here is something else I could never afford to see.
Joan Didion
#37. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.
Rebecca McNutt
#38. I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love.
LeAnne Mechelle
#39. Why don't we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?
Naguib Mahfouz
#40. The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.
Lathish R. Shankar
#42. I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#43. People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.
Haruki Murakami
#44. Don't ever feel bad that someone couldn't give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
Avijeet Das
#47. This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.
Jenim Dibie
#48. Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.
Indu Muralidharan
#49. I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
Josh Radnor
#50. Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
Mordecai Richler
#51. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.
Sanober Khan
#52. Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.
A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.
This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.
Juliet Marillier
#53. Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter
#54. She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?
Sage Steadman
#55. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?
Jeanette Winterson
#56. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.
Harriet Evans
#57. 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.
Richard Ford
#58. Nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.
Michel Houellebecq
#59. Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart!
Balroop Singh
#60. When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered ... the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls ... bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory
Marcel Proust
#61. Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#62. The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?
Marty Rubin
#63. We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.
Sarah Domet
#65. I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities.
Donna Lynn Hope
#66. Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar ...
William Faulkner
#67. And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.
Mohsin Hamid
#68. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.
Christopher J. Nolan
#69. Perhaps all memories are inherently sad, even the happy ones, and should for that reason be avoided. Nostalgia is not so much the recollection of things past as the recollection of things you are no longer connected to.
Simon Wroe
#70. Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.
Damien Echols
#71. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire
and frost of memories
of the everlastingness
of love
the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.
Sanober Khan
#72. Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
Honore De Balzac
#73. Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.
Anurag Shourie
#74. From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost ...
David Nicholls
#75. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with - nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.
Rob Sheffield
#76. But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.
Isabel Allende
#77. I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#78. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.
Sanober Khan
#79. See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.
Jeff Kinney
#80. That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.
Jenny Lawson
#81. Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.
Shirley Temple
#82. Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
Jenny Han
#83. We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.
Daniel Silva
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