#nostalgia

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, and the past perfect! ↗

— Owens Lee Pomeroy

#nostalgia

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#homeland #nostalgia #nostalgia

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist. ↗

— Woody Allen

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How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#postmodernity #nostalgia

Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that’s how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#memories #nostalgia #relationships #nostalgia

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

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