Nostalgia is a very human feeling that when experiencing emotions can be contradictory. When you miss someone you feel homesick. It can be missed because of the distance, or when a person has passed away or simply because lives have taken different paths. This feeling if it is constant can negatively affect the person, causing sadness and even depression at some point.
But nostalgia is a feeling that should not be rejected, rather it should be embraced. Feeling that it helps us connect with ourselves and with the emotional needs we have. It is also to miss the past, to miss other times, other experiences that are not enjoyed in the present ... Nostalgia is living in a reality that was etched in the heart but that time left behind.
45 nostalgia phrases for when you miss
Below we want to offer you some nostalgic phrases so that you can reflect on this feeling that makes us so human and allows us to be connected with each other.
- Don't succumb to longing. Go to the street. Go to a neighboring city, to a foreign country ..., but do not travel to the past that hurts. (Pablo Picasso)
- There is no greater sadness to remember, when you are in misery, a happy time. (Dante Alighieri)
- I'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday. (Kris Kristofferson)
- Nostalgia is an archive that removes the rough edges of the good old days. (Doug Larson)
- It's a strange shame ... dying of nostalgia for something you will never live (Alessandro Baricco)
- Have you ever felt nostalgic for a place that really doesn't exist anymore? A place that only exists in your mind? (Jenny Lawson)
- I look back with a mixture of emotions: sadness for the people who have left, nostalgia for the times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that I had on my way. (Dick Van Patten)
- Carried away by nostalgia, he had downloaded the song to his phone, to listen to it just once, to cherish the memories of a better time. (Fernando Trujillo Sanz)
- Nostalgia, the vice of the elderly. We watch so many old movies that our memories come in monochrome. (Angela Carter)
- How many times have I stayed in the rain on a strange roof, thinking about my home. (William Faulkner)
- Those who wanted to sleep, not out of fatigue, but out of nostalgia for dreams. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- They say that when you miss someone they probably feel the same way, but I don't think it's possible that you miss me as much as I miss you right now. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- I want the morning, noon and evening with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses ... the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life ... be in your arms while I take my last breath. (Lisa Kleypas)
- It's weird to feel like you're missing someone you're not even sure you know. (David Foster Wallace)
- The present does not exist, it is a point between illusion and longing. (Lorenzo Villalonga)
- How fast and rushed life can seem, when at the same time it is so slow, sweet and eternal. (Graham Swift)
- It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know that something inside me is still broken. (Steve Almond)
- No matter how well done the stitches are, it is difficult to live when our entrails have been replaced by longing for a person; It seems that the latter occupies more place than the former, we feel it continually, and furthermore, what ambiguity to be forced to think about a part of one's own body! (Marcel Proust)
- True nostalgia is a fleeting composition of disconnected memories. (Florence King)
- -Your memory feels like my home. So when my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you. (Suzuki frog)
- Just because I'm not always by your side doesn't mean it's not exactly where I want to be. (Stephanie Laurens)
- There is a space between the imagination and the achievement of man that can only be crossed by his longing. (Kahlil Gibran)
- There is a certain nostalgia and romance in the place you left. (David Guterson)
- He was in my hair, in my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I dreamed all day about what I was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I couldn't eat thinking about him. (Lisa See)
- Too long I struggled with nostalgia, with my gaze fixed on the distance, too long I remained in solitude, so I no longer know how to shut up. (Nietzsche)
- Longing is the way before becoming a pillar of salt. (Enrique Múgica)
- Nostalgia is a seductive lie. (George Wildman Ball)
- Nostalgia for what we've lost is more bearable than homesick for what we've never had. (Mignon McLaughlin)
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately he kills all his students. (Hector Louis Berlioz)
- It's weird how we hardly notice the best moments of our lives, except when we look back. (Joe Abercrombie)
- Nostalgia is a seductive lie. (George Wildman Ball)
- It's funny how we cling to the past, while we wait for our future. (Ally Condie)
- There is no worse nostalgia than longing for something that never ever happened. (Joaquin Sabina)
- Things are not the way they used to be, and they probably never were. (Will Rogers)
- Ah the good times! When we were so unhappy. (Alexander Dumas)
- Nostalgia is genuine, you cry for things that actually happened (Pete Hamill)
- Nostalgia is a file that eliminates the rough edges of the old days. (Doug Larson)
- I move the memory around the apartment from one side to the other, as if it were a piece of furniture or a painting that I don't know where to hang. (Nathan Filer)
- Nostalgia is something that we think is blurry, but it is pain. Grief over the past (Peter Carey)
- Acute nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already have. (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
- It's strange how we cling to the pieces of the past while we wait for our future. (Ally Condie)
- The past is a long distance candle: too close to let you go, too far to comfort you. (Amy Bloom)
- I'm going to miss you every moment, every moment of the day, because you have become the sun that illuminates my life. (Megan Maxwell)
- You cannot have a better future if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles Kettering)
- It is getting easier as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. (Ted Koppel)
