Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The good old days are now.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

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

The good old times—all times when old are good.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

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

Memories are doing funny things to us.