#nostalgia

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

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I had been there before; I knew all about it. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

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In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Any time gone by was better. ↗

— Jorge Manrique

#nostalgia #remembrance #time #nostalgia

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be ↗

— Kristen Ashley

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One is always at home in one's past... ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It seemed like it was always autumn in this field - it was fitting really. Everything was shaded with the bronzes and yellows of faded pictures from an old photo album, it was a realm where uncomfortable nostalgia reigned. I noticed it more after my experience in the dream. There I was an actor in the play, here I was a spectator. ↗

— Mike Jackson

#death #memory #nostalgia #taven-s-departing #death

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#life #nostalgia #life

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

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