Past Nostalgia Quotes

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.Our girls [Paper Girls] are now dealing with what their futures look like, and reflecting on what they hoped the present day versions might be like.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.