#nostalgia

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#age

You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat. ↗

— Doug Walker

#nostalgia-critic #simile #subtlety #train-wreck #simile

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday. ↗

— Kris Kristofferson

#nostalgia #song-lyrics #nostalgia

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#changing-seasons #life #nostalgia #seasons #change

عندئذ فقط أدركت كيف يغمرك الشوق إلى مكان فلا تملك إلا أن تعود وتلتقط من المدينة أجزاء هنا وهناك لتشكل منها المكان الذي عرفته يوم ما. ولكن ما العمل إذا استحالت العودة؟ ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#love

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#nostalgia #school #love

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#love #nostalgia #possibility #rule #love

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. ↗

— David Cassidy

#i #nostalgia #play #shows

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. ↗

— Ally Condie

#nostalgia #past