Nostalgy Quotes

“She was something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Todo desapareció a su alrededor y sólo tuvieron consciencia de sus labios unidos tomando y recibiendo. En verdad apenas fue un beso, la sugerencia de un contacto esperado e inevitable, pero ambos estaban seguros de que ése sería el único beso que pudieran recordar hasta el fin de sus días y de todas las caricias la única en dejar una huella certera en sus nostalgias. Supieron que dentro de años todavía podrían evocar con presión el contacto húmedo y cálido de sus labios, el olor a pasto fresco y la tormentosa sensación de sus espíritus.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“Dok vjerovali još smo
da svaki put se mijenja
mi rekli smo si zbogom
govoreć doviđenja.”
― Arsen Dedić, Brod u boci

“Had I been born in a different time, I would have been a wanderer with little money, few worries and even fewer fears.”
― Wiss Auguste

“Якщо в ідеології є насолода, то є і ностальгія за самовдоволенністю.”
― John Tagg, Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

“Everything he’d ever had was gone. His job, his community. He wasn’t even a cop anymore, his checked-in-luggage handgun notwithstanding. He would never eat at the little East Indian cart at the edge of sector nine again. The receptionist at the station would never nod her greeting to him as he headed in for his desk again. No more nights at the bar with the other cops, no more off-color stories about busts gone weird, no more kids flying kites in the high tunnels. He probed himself like a doctor searching for inflammation. Did it hurt here? Did he feel the loss there?
He didn’t. There was only a sense of relief so profound it approached giddiness.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“All the gods know how to do is replay their past.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief