Best Nostalgia Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively,”

“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”

“Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.”

“Nostalgia whispers sweet lies, but the present calls for your full presence. Don’t trade today’s light for yesterday’s shadows—let memories guide you, not bind you.”

“it's good to have things done with”

“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined”

“The campus, an academy of trees,”

“For it is up to you and me”

“Suddenly it's December and you're not 17 anymore. And you haven't been 17 for a very long time, but sometimes you need to remind yourself.”

“I am filled time and again”

“for those memories are now”

“When I was younger, I was told that there is too much inside me. That I have feelings where others have bone. At the age of seven, a doctor tapped inside my head and asked, "Do you choke on memories from time to time? Do you cry for no good reason at all? Do words take a hammer to your head and crack your skull?" Yes, yes, yes, I nodded. "Then you've definitely got them," he said, as he checked off a box on his list. "Too many feelings. What a shame. Try not to keep them inside or you'll drown.”

“The aching in my chest”

“when we were kids”

“There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.”

“The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the next”

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”

“Home is not walls, but the memories that outlast them.”

“There’s something only those born and raised in a seaside town can understand, something indecipherable to others. Only we have this constant dialogue with this dimension rooted in our souls. The other, liquid half of the world, always there, reminding us, at every moment, of the possibility of an elsewhere.”

“Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?”

“If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the”

“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.”

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”