The 95 best phrases about nostalgia

Has a moment in your life made you nostalgic? It may have been a place, a relationship, or an experience, but longing is a feeling that envelops us from time to time. Although for some, longing is a heavy burden and is synonymous with great sadness. What is true is that reminds us of an incredible past that we want to relive and that brings great lessons for our present.

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Great quotes and reflections on nostalgia

To understand the great impact of this feeling in our life, we bring below the best quotes about nostalgia that will make us reflect.

1. I can get sad, I can get frustrated and I can get scared but I never get depressed, because there is joy in my life. (Michael J. Fox)

Sadness is part of our lives, as well as joys.

2. Nostalgia is the essence of romanticism.

Romance and nostalgia can go hand in hand.

3. Although time wears away many things, something is still missing when a love ends. (Alejandro Sanz)

The loss of a love triggers a terrible longing.

4. Don't succumb to longing. Go to the street. Go to a neighboring city, to a foreign country..., but do not travel to the past that hurts. (Pablo Picasso)

Longing can drown us if we succumb to it.

5. It's easy to cry when you realize that the people you love will end up rejecting you or dying. (Chuck Palahniuk)

It is important to understand that people can leave at any time.

6. It is very rare to feel that you long for something that you are not even sure you know. (David Foster Wallace)

Missing something unknown is a deep and incomprehensible feeling.

7. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling, it can drown anything. (Terrence Malick)

So be careful how you let it into your life.

8. No nostalgia feels as strong as nostalgia for things that never existed. (Rabih Alameddine)

Even longing can be created in our imagination.

9. Nostalgia is the joy of being sad. (Victor Hugo)

An interesting way of looking at longing.

10. There is no worse nostalgia than longing for what never ever happened. (Joaquin Sabina)

Another phrase that shows us that we can also miss things that never happened.

11. Nostalgia is not what it used to be. (Peter De Vries)

We miss the things that will never come back.

12. Nostalgia for what we've lost is more bearable than homesick for what we've never had. (Mignon McLaughlin)

The regret for not having done something will always be greater.

13. It is worth more on the face than the stain on the heart. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Don't let your sorrows flood your heart.

14. The fact of being inhabited by an incomprehensible nostalgia would be, after all, the indication that there is an afterlife. (Eugene Ionesco)

The longing related to death.

15. Nostalgia is genuine, you cry for things that actually happened. (Peter Hamil)

A feeling that shows our vulnerability.

16. Of all the sad words on the tongue and in the pen, the saddest is 'it could have been'. (John Greenleaf Whittier)

Undoubtedly, the confusion weighs.

17. You can love someone very much. But you can never love anyone as much as you can miss them. (John Green)

Missing a person is a feeling that never goes away.

18. Between you and me (my mengana) a Berlin wall was erected, made of deserted hours, fleeting longings. (Mario Benedetti)

A reference to the distance between lovers.

19. There is always a kind of nostalgia for places where you recognize yourself. (Sam Shepard)

We miss that place that we feel like home to.

20. You were a child of fog almost in nowhere; name of my smile behind the soul. (Claudia Lars)

For those loves that once were.

21. There is nothing so sweet as the homeland and one's parents, even if one has the most opulent mansion in a strange and distant land. (Homer)

The country of origin is carried in the soul.

22. Will the nymphs in the sky feel nostalgic on foggy days? (Kobayashi Issa)

We all feel nostalgic for something.

23. Nostalgia is a seductive lie. (George Wildman Ball)

A cruel way of looking at nostalgia.

24. There is no greater sorrow than to remember in misery the moment when we were happy. (Dante)

Without a doubt, a terrible pain.

25. Longing is the way before becoming a pillar of salt. (Enrique Múgica)

When we drown in our sorrows it is impossible to get ahead.

26. Being alienated does not provide an authentic world. This causes a nostalgia: he wishes for another country and regrets having been born in his own. He is ashamed of his reality. (Paulo Freire)

A dark side of longing for what is not.

27. Sadness, although always justified, is often just laziness. Nothing takes less effort than being sad. (Seneca)

Sadness strikes at any moment.

28. That wonder, nostalgia and everything is that, it is a balm.

Missing something can drive us to improve.

29. Longing was suffocated under habit. (Gustave Flaubert)

A way to eliminate the longing.

30. Nostalgia is a dangerous way to compare. (Brené Brown)

When we cling to the past so much, it is impossible to see a good future.

31. True nostalgia is a fleeting composition of disconnected memories. (Florence King)

One way to describe nostalgia.

32. It's called nostalgia, and it reminds us that, luckily, we are also fragile. (Cesare Pavese)

A sample of our sensitivity as humans.

33. Our most sincere smile with some pain is loaded. Our sweetest songs are those that speak of the saddest feeling. (Percy Bisshe Shelley)

Sadness can also be a muse.

34. No person deserves your tears and whoever deserves them will not make you cry. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Miss only those people who have brought you joy.

35. It is nostalgia. It is like a drug. It prevents you from seeing things the way they are. (Jon Bernthal)

Nostalgia can distort reality.

36. The present does not exist, it is a point between illusion and longing. (Lorenzo Villalonga)

The way longing can change our perception.

37. When you return to your old home you realize that you did not miss the house, but your childhood. (Sam Ewing)

More than missing the land, we miss the good times on it.

38. But the candombe does not forget, and is reborn in each wound, of the stick, of the drum, with soul and life. (Alfredo Zitarrosa)

Pain can be reborn if it is not cured.

39. Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much as we fight against it, it is very difficult not to feel it. (Robert Del Naja)

No feeling should be repressed.

40. It's funny how we cling to the past, while we wait for our future. (Ally Condie)

A state that we cannot avoid.

41. There is no worse sadness than remembering happiness on a day of pain. (Alfred de Musset)

Happiness can be a boost or a cheap blow.

42. The old-fashioned returns in due time as the picturesque. (Christie Agatha)

Somehow the past returns.

43. Homesickness can be considered a disease because you are living now. (Todd Haynes)

It all depends on the way we perceive it.

44. The life of a day does not satisfy that longing to live; the love of an instant cannot fulfill the desires of this restless heart. (Emilio Castelar)

The desire to obtain things that are permanent.

45. Happy is he who recognizes in time that his wishes are not in accordance with his faculties. (Goethe)

It is important to be realistic with our goals.

46. I don't like nostalgia, unless it's mine. (Lou Reed)

There are those who bear the penalties of others.

47. Every man has secret penalties that the world is unaware of and many times we call a man cold who is only sad. (Henry Longfellow)

We all have our inner regrets.

48. In what hollow will I hide my soul so that it does not see your absence that like a terrible sun, without setting, shines definitively and mercilessly? (Jorge Luis Borges)

Talking about forgetting a love that's gone

49. I went through a phase where I believed that nostalgia was a bad thing. (Darío Argento)

Nostalgia can become a great motivation for the future.

50. Indeed, each era has its own false nostalgia. (Gary Ross)

There are longings that are not real.

51. Going back to seventeen after living a century is like deciphering signs without being a competent sage. (Violeta Parra)

A wish that many have.

52. I never remember with nostalgia; the phrase "the good old days" never leaves my mouth. (Nicholas Haslam)

When the past is locked up.

53. It is getting easier, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. (Ted Koppel)

The longing increases with the years.

54. Tears are words that the heart cannot express.

It never hurts to vent once in a while.

55. When you can't do what you want, you have to want what you can. (Terence)

Don't feel sorry for what you can't achieve. Focus on what you can conquer.

56. Desire is a longing of thought towards the future. (Simone Weil)

We can also hope for a better future.

57. I don't have a sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me. (Francois Pinault)

When the future is more important than the past.

58. Now something so sad has come over us that it takes our breath away. And we can't even cry. (Charles Bukowski)

When the feeling drowns you

59. For too long I struggled with longing, with my gaze fixed on the distance, too long I remained in solitude, so I no longer know how to shut up. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

When longing takes over our whole world.

60. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges of the old days. (Doug Larson)

Therefore it is better to remember the good things.

61. Nostalgia is being blind to the bad and only remembering the good. (Jarod Kintz)

One way nostalgia can act.

62. The past is a long distance candle: too close to let you go, too far to comfort you. (Amy Bloom)

The essence of the past.

63. How to walk, without nostalgia, the road, dreaming two different dreams while around love collapses. (José Hierro)

An expression about couples who have different goals in life.

64. Things are not the way they used to be, and they probably never were. (Will Rogers)

Sometimes we have to be careful how we remember things.

65. Unhappy is the one to whom childhood memories of him only bring fear and sadness. (H. P. Lovecraft)

Childhood should be synonymous with joy.

66. The more wishes you sow, the less happiness you reap. (Anonymous)

You cannot live on illusions.

67. Tears, do not flow anymore, and if your desire is to flow, do it gently. (Lord Herbert)

All pain must be worked on in order to get ahead.

68. Nostalgia for a childhood that is history, in my memory a yesterday so distant that I will never live again.

A happy childhood is always well remembered.

69. How sad it was to love and hate at the same time! (Leo Tolstoy)

Is it possible to love and hate at the same time?

70. I assure you that wherever I am, I miss you.

The inexhaustible weight of missing a person.

71. I'm going to miss you every moment, every moment of the day, because you have become the sun that illuminates my life. (Megan Maxwell)

The impact of a person in our life.

72. It becomes easier, as you get older, to fall into nostalgia. (Ted Koppel)

It is in old age where memories abound.

73. The problem with nostalgia is that it is in and out of the bounds of good and evil.

Again, this depends on the way you look at it.

74. Today I know that this is how you were trying to explain to me that the world is too big for our nostalgia. (Mario Payeras)

Never let yourself be carried away by your sorrows.

75. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately he kills all his students. (Hector Louis Berlioz)

Time never stops for anyone.

76. Some cared what happened to me, but no one cared enough. (Jay Asher)

The main person who should care about you is yourself.

77. There are four things that men very much desire and cannot achieve: plenty of money, perfection of science, continuous rest, and perfect joy. (Horacio Riminaldi)

You can't do everything in this life.

78. I love nostalgia, I wish we never lose some of the things of the past. (Walt Disney)

A very positive way of looking at nostalgia.

79. Discard sadness and melancholy. Life is kind, it has only a few days and only now are we to enjoy it. (Federico García Lorca)

Focus more on the joys that happen to you.

80. The school years, with their calm and carefreeness, will never return. (José Ramón Ayllón)

The school years are always missed.

81. I don't think nostalgia has to be a negative thing. (Van Morrison)

Nostalgia can be heartening.

82. The memory of things in the past is not necessarily the memory of things as they actually happened. (Marcel Proust)

There may be resources that only live in our minds.

83. Things that die never come back to life, things that die never come back. The glasses are broken and the glass that remains is dust forever and always will be! (Alfonsina Storni)

The past does not reappear in the same way.

84. Your voice of nostalgia flees with the sound of a train in my memory not in yours so close to mine of forgetfulness and corners on inventories of slips. (Carmen Naranjo)

The impact of the presence of a person that does not fade.

85. Sadness is a disease in which each patient must treat himself. (Molière)

All regret needs to be dealt with and it turned out.

86. There are two tragedies in life: one not achieving what the heart yearns for; the other is to achieve it. (George Bernard Shaw)

As the saying goes, 'be careful what you wish for'.

87. You never heal from what you lack, you adapt, you tell other truths. She learns to live with herself, with the nostalgia for life, like the elderly. (Margaret Mazzantini)

Life is a constant process of adaptation.

88. The longest road has an end; the gloomiest night ends with the arrival of morning. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

All evil has an end.

89. A thousand moments go through my head, all the times that these arms were my only refuge in the world. You may not appreciate them as you should then, but they are sweet memories that will go away forever. (Suzanne Collins)

The longing for a love that will never come back.

90. I move the memory around the apartment from one side to the other, as if it were a piece of furniture or a painting that I don't know where to hang. (Nathan Filer)

The memory can be a burden that we must learn to discard.

91. Nostalgia is when you want things to always stay the same. (Jeanne Moreau)

You have to learn that change is inevitable and necessary.

92. Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under her influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers as if they were emotional superheroes. (Kate Christensen)

The transformative power of nostalgia.

93. Part of your forgetfulness lives in my nostalgia. (Alejandro Lanús)

Leave the pain behind.

94. Nothing thicker than a blade separates happiness from melancholy. (Virginia Woolf)

Happiness and sadness can be confused in memory.

95. Measure your desires, weigh your opinions, count your words. (Pythagoras)

Care that must be taken in our life.