#nostalgia

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#used

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet ↗

— Robert Browning

#nostalgia #reflection #the-past #love

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. ↗

— Paul Getty

#leads #nostalgia #often #speculation

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation ↗

— James Elroy Flecker

#literature #nostalgia #age

NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain. ↗

— Christian Lorentzen

#nostalgia #age

And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#nostalgia #age

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#memories #nostalgia #change

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy. ↗

— David Budbill

#poetry #truth #vermont #change

The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#experience