Nostalgia Quotes to Share With Family and Friends
Thinking back on times together with your family makes you smile. It could be an aroma or a glimpse of something familiar from your past that invokes a sweet nostalgic moment. It might even be finding your high school jacket in the back of your closet. Share a few of these quotes with your family and friends on throwback Thursday.
• There's a moment when you smile, and it takes you back to a simpler time.
• Being with you like this makes me nostalgic for our childhood.
• That mischievous look in your eyes reminds me of my younger days.
• Our journey together has been forged in memories.
• Seeing you takes me back to some of the greatest memories in my bank.
• I don't just smile because I'm happy to see you. I smile because I remember all the good times we've shared together.
• In a breathtaking moment, I'm taken back to our youth and your smile.
• Not every idea was epic, but the memories were.
• Time does not change the flavor of our friendship. It's still just as sweet.
• Words aren't required to reminisce about the memories we shared.
• Memories are a powerful connection and gift we share with those we love.
Childhood Nostalgia Quotes to Remember the Good Times
The warm fuzzies fill your heart when you pick up an old photo album from your youth. Create the perfect caption for your childhood scrapbook with these nostalgic sayings.
• The flood of memories of us together is what happiness is made of.
• Some of the most incredible memories are forged in a time of innocence.
• The sweetest friendships are those from your childhood.
• Childhood memories sneak up on you when you least expect them, bringing a smile to your face.
• Nothing was more beautiful than the belief that anything was real.
• The true friends of your childhood were willing to fight monsters with you.
• Imagination and wonder fill the memories of our childhood.
• Treasure the childhood memories, where happiness danced on the wind.
• Your most treasured moments fill your childhood memories.
• Going back to a time where any adventure was a possibility.
• Take a walk back to your childhood via memory lane.
Getting Lost in Nostalgia Messages
• There are moments when it's better to get lost in the memories.
• It's strange how a simple photograph can wrap you in a warm hug.
• It only takes a moment to get lost in the past.
• Smiles and tears collide when memories sweep you back in time.
• The feeling of a memory washing over you is hard to explain.
• When your heart longs for the adventures dancing on an image.
• For a heartbeat, you are taken back to a moment that seems frozen in time.
• Memories can suck you back into a moment.
• The moment when a song takes you back to a better time.
• In a moment, nostalgia captures your heart, gifting you with the beauty of your memories.
• With a song, you are lost in a once forgotten moment.
Short Quotes About Nostalgia That Long for the Past
• Take a moment to remember the past that created your present.
• Sometimes living in the moment is overrated.
• Let memories wash over you and offer a fresh perspective.
• Smile at the fondness that memories bestow.
• Enjoy the mystical clouds of joy nostalgia brings.
• You can learn from nostalgia.
• Nostalgia holds the warmth of joy.
• The sharpest memories get a warm glow with time.
• Nostalgia has a certain romance to it.
• Smile. It's nostalgic.
Sweet Nostalgia Quotes That Take You Back
Get connected with your past through a few sweet nostalgic quotes. Smile and enjoy the magic as you recapture those moments.
• Some places seem only meant to exist in your memories.
• This feeling of nostalgia washes over you like a wave of emotions.
• Memories are deeply ingrained in your soul.
• Nostalgia casts a powerful spell by immersing you in the past.
• Sweet memories are the greatest kind of nostalgia.
• Enjoy when a moment takes you back.
• They are called the good ol' days for a reason.
• It's the sweetest memories that make you smile.
• It's funny how a scent takes you back to a sweet moment.
• Certain songs are written in the soul of nostalgia.
Heartfelt Nostalgia Sayings About a Place
Walking into your childhood home, or even driving past it can flood you with nostalgia. You can instantly remember the bump you got on your head going down the basement stairs, or how you and your sister used to watch cartoons together in the living room. The furniture might be different, but your memories are always the same. Check out a few sayings to capture that feeling of bliss.
• It's not the place, it's the memories that live there.
• The significance is in the moments sweetly shared with love.
• Sometimes, the pang of nostalgia for a place is bitter and sweet.
• Specific memories are forever beautifully engraved in the places you've traveled.
• Stepping foot in the door takes you back in time.
• Every place you've traveled holds a little piece of your soul for you to remember.
• Nostalgia isn't the place, but the feelings you experienced there.
• Every place you've gone has left footprints on your heart.
• Visiting a charming place from your memory is like taking a vacation to yesteryear.
• The place holds a piece of your heart, and nostalgia dances sadly on the wind like an old friend.
• It's the heart of the place that traps the memories for a lifetime.
Nostalgia Quotes About Love and Heartache
Remember the moments with your first love? What about that crush you couldn't forget? As you prepare for a high school reunion or meet up with an old flame, memories of love and heartache will surely dance in your brain. These messages work perfectly to share your feelings.
• Memories of our love are like the moon on a dark night. They live together in harmony.
• The heartache of our memories is founded in love.
• Get nostalgic about the memories of love, laughter, and heartache.
• Without love, I wouldn't understand the heartache of beautiful memories.
• Nostalgia can strike you like a lightning bolt with waves of love and heartache.
• The sweetest memories of love send with them a bitterness of heartache.
• The good ol' days are written in the ink of love and heartache.
• The magic of nostalgia is remembering the love rather than the heartache.
• No memory of love is ever written without a little heartache.
• The moment love touched your heart, it created a beautiful, nostalgic memory.
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Charming and Funny Quotes About Nostalgia to Make You Smile
Nostalgia is all about reminiscing about those treasured memories. You might get a bit teary-eyed, but a smile will cross your lips. Get a little giggle out of these quotes.
• The moment when nostalgia hits you in the face and makes you realize your age.
• Nostalgia: When you've reached the age to say, "When I was a kid."
• The moments that bring you together in laughter are written on the sands of time.
• Best and worst are born on the objectiveness of memories.
• That horrifying moment when you realize you did that as a kid too.
• Nostalgia gives real memories an edge of fiction.
• It's not until you age that you realize the importance of grasping youthful bliss.
• When you were a kid, you wanted to be an adult. Now that you're an adult, you get nostalgic about being a kid.
• Memories are a gift that wraps around your heart like a familiar friend.
• Some photographs are forever written on your heart.
Inspirational Nostalgia Quotes to Find a Key to the Past
Sometimes our precious past inspires our future. As you flip through the pages of your memory book, you may recall an old dream or a beloved hobby. Remembering those moments of bliss might help you find that feeling of love in your heart once more.
• It's important to remember the past, or how do we learn?
• The footprints of our memories etch every photograph.
• Sometimes memories are all we have holding us together.
• Nostalgia adds sweetness to memories.
• The key to the past is found in your heart.
• Close your eyes and smile at the memories that flood your heart.
• The heart of love is found in your memories of yesterday.
• It's the moments of the past that prepare you for today.
• Every moment is a learning moment you can look back at fondly.
• The tears of yesterday are the smiles of today.
• Every memory becomes sweeter with time.
Famous Nostalgia Quotes to Share
There are a lot of famous quotes about nostalgia. See what a few incredible wordsmiths have to say about connecting with the past.
• "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." - Albert Camus
• "It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia." - Frank Zappa
Timeless Quotes About Nostalgia
Your memories are timeless. Whether you are sharing an old image with a friend or giving a gift to your lifetime bestie, they work to help you show the world how precious growing up in a simpler time was. These quotes can also make a great decoration for a retro game room or even a shirt for a reunion. Recapture the magic of your past with sweet delight.
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81 of the Best Classic & Modern Love Quotes of All Time
"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."
• Casablanca
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
• Anaïs Nin
"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return."
• Moulin Rouge
"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."
• Oscar Wilde
"I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly."
• You’ve Got Mail
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
• Ursula K. Le Guin
"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
• Gone With The Wind
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
• Emily Brontë
"The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck."
• Silver Linings Playbook
"Your kisses lift me higher... like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love."
• Elvis Presley
"I can’t see anything I don’t like about you."
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."
• André Breton
"It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other."
• Good Will Hunting
"I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where."
• Patch Adams
"I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
• Notting Hill
"We are most alive when we’re in love."
• John Updike
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• The Notebook
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
• Audrey Hepburn
"You have bewitched me body and soul and I love, I love, I love you."
• Pride and Prejudice
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."
• The Great Gatsby
"I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental—like on a breeze—but I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away."
• Forrest Gump
"Love is friendship that has caught fire."
• Ann Landers
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
• Wayne Dyer
"If you’re a bird, I’m a bird."
• The Notebook
'Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you."
• Titanic
"So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink. I could be the man who grows old with you. I wanna grow old with you."
• The Wedding Singer
"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'"
• Erich Fromm
"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."
• It’s A Wonderful Life
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
• Elbert Hubbard
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
• The Princess Bride
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
• George Sand
"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One."
• City of Angels
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
• Joan Crawford
"I think I’d miss you even if we never met."
• The Wedding Date
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
• Henry Miller
"It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I’d ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic."
• Sleepless In Seattle
"A simple 'I love you' means more than money."
• Frank Sinatra
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true."
• Big Fish
"You had me at hello."
• Jerry Maguire
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
• Zelda Fitzgerald
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."
• The Fault In Our Stars
"Love recognizes no barriers."
• Maya Angelou
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
• When Harry Met Sally
"Love is sharing your popcorn."
• Charles Schulz
"I love how she makes me feel like anything is possible, or like life is worth it."
• 500 Days Of Summer
"To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."
• Pablo Neruda
"It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together."
• Serendipity
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• Eat Pray Love
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
• Pearl Bailey
"Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy."
• My Best Friend’s Wedding
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
• Robert Heinlein
"I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love."
• The Vow
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• James Baldwin
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• As Good As It Gets
"The only feeling of real loss is when you love someone more than you love yourself."
• Good Will Hunting
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
• Victor Hugo
"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
• The Fault In Our Stars
"Be with someone who is proud to have you."
• Unknown
"I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."
• Leo Christopher
"With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love."
• Casablanca
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
• Hermann Hesse
"You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without."
• P.S. I Love You
"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you."
• Roy Croft
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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• Bob Marley
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• Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Dolly Parton
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• Reese Witherspoon
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• Meghan Markle
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• Katy Perry
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• Sex and the City
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• Rumi
"Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me."
• Beyoncé Knowles
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• Tom Hanks
"I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfection."
• Taylor Swift
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• Julia Roberts
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
• Jimi Hendrix
"Love yourself! You don’t need a man or a boy or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you’re worth. Your power comes from who you are and what you do! You don't need all that noise, that constant hum in the background telling you whether or not you're good enough."
• Amy Schumer
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• Will Ferrell
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return."
• Madonna
By Caitlin Killoren on May 27, 2022
With a degree in Psychology and over a decade of experience, Caitlin has made improving people's relationships both her career and her passion. Her work has been featured in publications like Bustle, Well + Good, and Goalcast, and she currently resides in Austin, Texas with her husband and giant fluffy dog, Remy.