148 quotes found
“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”
“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”
“Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.”
“...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”
“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentia...”
“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”
“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”
“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 ...”
“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”
“The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.”
“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.”
“You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.”
“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 through them. ”
“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.”
“nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.”
“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past. Only something so momentous as to drive from his consciousness ...”
“You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.”
“PatriotismBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land!' Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'dFr...”
“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.”
