Bittersweet Nostalgia Quotes

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.