Stefan Karl Stefansson Quotes

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

The thought of the weekends I used to have now makes me shake.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.