====== nostalgia in a nutshell ====== ``` ==== Joke ==== Mr and Mrs are both in their fifties. Their last child has just got married and it's time for nostalgia. In the evening, as they lie in bed, Madame becomes romantic; she gently removes her husband's glasses and says to him, her eyes full of love: - You know, darling, without your glasses, you still look like the handsome young man I married... And the husband replies: - But darling, without my glasses, you still look pretty good too! ==== Humour ==== * Nostalgia is like looking in the rear-view mirror: you see everything more beautiful... and then you drive into a pole. * My favourite playlist? Songs that remind me of a time when I hated them. * The good thing about nostalgia is that it wipes out the bills and keeps the sunsets. ==== Quotes ==== > Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. > > - Simone Signoret > "Nostalgia is the desire not to have to think about the future any more." > > - Milan Kundera > "We don't regret the past; we regret the person we were in the past. > > - Frequently attributed to John Green > "Nostalgia is like sunburn: it doesn't hurt during, it hurts in the evening." > > - Pierre Desproges > "Nostalgia? It comes when the present doesn't live up to the promises of the past." > > - Neil Bissondath > "Nostalgia: the bride of good memories lit by candlelight." > > > - Grand Corps Malade > "It's better to keep the nostalgia of a paradise by leaving it than to turn it into hell by staying. > > - Jacques Ferron > "Remorse expresses nostalgia, regret for what could have been and was not. > > - Antonio Tabucchi > "Memories are our strength. When the night tries to return, we must light the great dates, as we light torches." > > - Victor Hugo ==== French proverbs ==== * Out of sight, out of mind". * You don't know what you've got until you've lost it. * "It's when you leave things that you feel their value." * Time passes, memories remain. * Travel is for youth, memories are for old age. ==== Proverbs from other cultures ==== === Russia === > "Where you feel good, there is your homeland". === Serbia === > "Svuda pođi, svojoj kući dođi." Go anywhere, but come back home. === Arab world === > "The nostalgic sees in the desert the garden of his childhood. === China === > Leaves always fall towards their roots". (return to origins, family, native land) ```