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)