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The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.
You can't live in nostalgia-land.
And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.
Call us the future from your past.
It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be
Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.
Sometimes doing things we used to do reminds us of who we used to be, and not always in good ways.
The past is where its supposed to be.
My most salient memories
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
The past is dead except for the life you give it
... yearn for halcyon days of yore".
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our past is our learnings, our past should stay where it is. And we should let it.
What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.
Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories
a new building here, a change in paint there
is forever jarring and anachronistic.
It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.
Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.
("The Chymist")
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.
I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.
Show us your true colors, who you used to be.
In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.
She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
What has happened in the past is gone
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!
Out with the old; in with the aftermath.
The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.
I am the collector of the past.
The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
The past is a bucket of ashes
The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.Hell-- Jack Lalanne
Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
It used to be you that I like but now I'm going to do what I like-- Chris Brown
I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember ... when life made more sense ... Take me back, take me back, take me way back ... to when life made more sense.
My nostalgia is for the impossible.
Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
When history calls, history calls,
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
The past is a country to which one cannot return
Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.
I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.
Sometimes I miss the old me.Miss-- Ann Aguirre
Less past, more future!
I recognize the vestiges of an old flame
Leave the Future Behind
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
Let me remember how it used to be, and bring one morning back again.
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
Our regrets want to bring
back many things we leave behind
Old Time the clock-setter.
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
Originality is going back to origins.
Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.
I'm attracted to the past.
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
Old habits die hard,
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
We shed the skins of who we used to be!
Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living in; and comforting doses are increased as their dislike of the present is reinforced by dread of the future.
What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.
Old is the new sexy.Sexy-- Ellen Barkin
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day
Back to missing you,
Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
The present is the key to the past
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
I hate that word. It's return
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
I love stepping back in time
Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.
Fuck the past. This was the present.
I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.