Nostalgia – Quotes

Her heart of compressed

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In her final years

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Death really did not

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She felt so old,

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The … Read more

A vacation is like

A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. Evan Esar

In the history of

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History… There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered … Read more

Always, our eyes look

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age. Esther Meynell

I noticed in the

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1’s ‘I Love the ’80s’ gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation. Ernest Cline

I started to understand

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don’t like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege – as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class. Erin McKeown