Nostalgia

(125 votes)   When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(123 votes)   Remembrance of things past.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(112 votes)   A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(111 votes)   It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson Mccullers
1917-1967, American Author

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(107 votes)   That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman
1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar

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(104 votes)   Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

John Steinbeck
1902-1968, American Author

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(104 votes)   For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

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(104 votes)   People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Mick Jagger
1943-, British-born American-born American Musician, Singer

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(100 votes)   Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(100 votes)   Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted dTja vu.

Florence King
1936-, American Author, Critic

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(86 votes)   I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

Callimachus
250 B.C. Greek Poet, Grammarian

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