“'K': This is really somethin.’ Rick Deckard: The whole town was somethin'. One time. Forget your troubles, see a show, gamble a little. Win some money, lose some money. They made money seem like candy.”— Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, K, Ryan Gosling, imdb.com
“I take comfort in the past. I draw my memories around me like a warm blanket. But I also rehash and replay, question decisions, can’t get over anything, rebel against the passage of time.”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“That sensation of being wholly entranced, back on your bed, headphones on or speakers as loud as you’re allowed, with a song or an album looping you in so intensely that you lose track of time and place — I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be able to return to that unique kind of meditation again.”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“When I get cards or notes from friends I tend to leave them on the tray, as it’s a nice way to display a couple of them without lining them up on the mantelpiece like my mother does.”— Laura Jane Williams, graziadaily.co.uk
“Steve: I have a question. What do you think dying is like?...You don't have to answer that if you don't want. I'll understand. Matt: No. No, it's okay. I'll answer it. I think about it sometimes. I think it's kind of like when you're little, and you're sick, and your parents pick you up and put you…”— Naomi Janzen, Matt Camden, Barry Watson, imdb.com
“Everyone wants to go back in time sometimes; to go back to the moment when everything was still possible. Before they made a wrong turn so that they can go on the right path. But it’s not possible. All we can do is make the most of right now.”— Nick Jones, Sam Healy, Michael Harney, imdb.com
“Blair Warner: [insulting Jo's clothes] She must think we're into nostalgia, she's still wearing flared jeans. Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek: Uh, in a minute you're gonna be wearing flared teeth!”— Jerry Mayer, Joanne Jo Polniaczek, Nancy McKeon, imdb.com
“You let nostalgia trick you, and you’ll regret it badly.”— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com
“The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“Memories are the way we tell stories back to ourselves to remember we’ve lived a life worth telling at all.”— Koty Neelis, medium.com
“Summer camp represented a fresh beginning. Like a new journal that hasn’t been scribbled on, my camp identity was beautifully blank: I’d be meeting a group of people with no knowledge of my social status, or lack thereof, at home.”— Dana Schwartz, thecut.com
“We're going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“your shampoo smelled like the riverbank & I wondered if that’s where you went on nights you couldn’t sleep.”— wroteghost, wroteghost.tumblr.com
“My heart kept beat with the slowly moaning drum. The hum of words unsaid. Breathless.”— Courtney Long, lennyletter.com
“Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no ‘business.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“my very first memory involves watching her plant roses in a garden and i’ve written too many poems to call this anything other than symbolic.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com