He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.
César AiraWhat you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
Julian BarnesYou may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
Julian BarnesTags: nostalgia the-sixties
Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
Michael Marshall SmithTags: friends nostalgia growing-older
Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.
Aaron Ben-Ze'evTags: imagination love nostalgia scars feelings circumstances desperation comeback phenomenon breakups reciprocity dwelling aching-heart billy-holiday central-features edna-st-vincent-millay ex-lovers hole-in-the-world impressive-comeback intense-desire mental-environment negative-experiences romantic-life st-vincent-millay
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Tags: knowledge nostalgia youth childhood ignorance
And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that—except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it.
Joan DidionTags: nostalgia new-york cities
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
Art BuchwaldWhen 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 ProustTags: nostalgia fragrance memories smell
Eraritjaritjaka albutjika
Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ...
His heart is filled with longing to turn for home
In the heat of the sun to return home ...
'Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia
Tags: nostalgia
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