Paul Auster Quotes

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

The good old days are now.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.