Susan Wiggs Quotes

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.