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Nostalgia Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Now, when the shades of evening begin to steal over my life, what have I left fresher, more precious, than the memories of the storm – so soon over – of early morning, of spring?”

Ivan Turgenev

Aging, Memory, Nostalgia, Youth, Passing Time

2. “My first love, certainly, was not quite an ordinary one.”

Ivan Turgenev

First Love, Uniqueness, Memory, Romance, Nostalgia

3. “I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it.”

Ivan Turgenev

Bittersweet, Experience, Regret, Nostalgia, Life’s Lessons

4. “'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.”

Camille Paglia

Media, Entertainment, Culture, Nostalgia, Perception

5. “I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!”

Camille Paglia

Reality Shows, Media, Entertainment, Culture, Nostalgia

6. “Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.”

Andrew Carnegie

Pittsburgh, Passion, Loyalty, Nostalgia, Roots

7. “I had a bag of Fritos, they were Texas grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of summer, when we used to fire up the barbeque and throw down some Fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on. Better flip that Frito, dad, you know how I like it.”

Mitch Hedberg

Fritos, Barbecue, Nostalgia, Summer, Snacks

8. “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.”

Mitch Hedberg

Sports, Nostalgia, Growth, Humor, Perspective

9. “We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.”

Charles Lamb

Happiness, Youth, Perspective, Nostalgia, Wealth

10. “We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.”

Charles Lamb

Memory, Reflection, Dreams, Nostalgia, Imagination

11. “Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child’s heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Innocence, Wisdom, Growth, Nostalgia

12. “There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”

Charles Lamb

Nature, Beauty, Nostalgia, Tranquility, Serenity

13. “Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!”

Charles Lamb

Fame, Remembrance, Loyalty, Ambition, Nostalgia

14. “Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!”

Charles Lamb

Memory, Home, Nostalgia, Music, Emotion

15. “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Nostalgia, Memory, Time, Reflection

16. “How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Memory, Nostalgia, Friendship, Reflection

17. “If thou would’st have me sing and play As once I play’d and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.”

Charles Lamb

Music, Renewal, Change, Nostalgia, Expression

18. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Nostalgia, Childhood, Friendship, Loss, Memory

19. “The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”

Charles Lamb

Time, Change, Celebration, Nostalgia, Reflection

20. “Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam?”

Charles Lamb

Home, Nostalgia, Distance, Emotion, Memory

21. “I have a fax machine with “fax waiting”.”

Steven Wright

Technology, Humor, Nostalgia, Observation, Irony

22. “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.”

Steven Wright

Memory, Nostalgia, Reflection, Life, Thought

23. “A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.”

Jimmy Carter

Joy, Memory, Nostalgia, Happiness, Reflection

24. “To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred.”

V.S. Naipaul

Home, Perspective, Memory, Change, Nostalgia

25. “Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.”

V.S. Naipaul

Emotions, Connection, Time, Nostalgia, Universality

26. “We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.”

Leonard Cohen

Music, Passion, Change, Industry, Nostalgia

27. “I ache in the places where I used to play...”

Leonard Cohen

Nostalgia, Aging, Pain, Past, Reflection

28. “My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”

Leonard Cohen

Aging, Nostalgia, Love, Music, Time

29. “I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face –.”

Leonard Cohen

Past, Reflection, Memory, Nostalgia, Experience

30. “What I loved in my old life – I haven’t forgotten – it lives in my spine.”

Leonard Cohen

Memory, Nostalgia, Identity, Experience, Resilience

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