Quotes about Nostalgia

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

I don't write letters anymore.

I play 'MLB 2K,' 'Madden,' and some old-school 'Mario Kart.'

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.")

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore