Quotes about Nostalgia

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.

Leave me with my memories. With my true, beautiful memories.

I wish I had the boy.

How are you? You old love-house of always.

There are always mystical countries that are a part of one's childhood. Those we remember and visit sometimes when we are asleep and dreaming. They are as lovely at night as they were when we were children. If you ever go back to see them they are not there. But they are as fine in the night as they ever were if you have the luck to dream of them.

Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.