Van Morrison Quotes

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

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I think we all miss our childhood.

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?

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

I would have liked the old days.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

I love nostalgia.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more