James Russell Lowell Quotes

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

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

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?

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

I'm a nostalgic guy.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

We all look for lost time.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I don't like looking back.

I don't much like looking back.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

There is no past that we can bring back to us by the longing for it.

I dwell in the past.

I love nostalgia.

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

The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had