Sentimental Journey Quotes

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.

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

I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.

Love is sentimental measles.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

One is always at home in one's past.

I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.