“Muy pronto se irá. La tierra va cansando cuando no se tienen esperanzas. A él lo ha detenido la chapolera. Ahora, ¿qué lo detiene?”
Source: La tierra éramos nosotros
“He didn’t like remembering such things, but by now he was used to the way life was punctuated by such moments, which sent hooks into parts of the past one might prefer to forget.”
Source: Little Family
“Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads”
“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“He had learned to learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He had learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The years nowadays don't pass the way the old ones used to.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Childhood doesn’t exist for children; however, for adults childhood is that former country we lost one day and which we futilely seek to recover by inhabiting it with diffuse or nonexistent memories, which in general are nothing but shadows of other dreams.”
Source: La forma de las ruinas
“...reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease...”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“Nostalgia is not indulgence. Nostalgia tells us we are in the presence of imminent revelation, about to break through the present structures held together by the way we have remembered: something we thought we understood but that we are now about to fully understand, something already lived but not fully lived, issuing not from our future but from something already experienced; something that was important, but something to which we did not grant importance enough, something now wanting to be lived again, at the depth to which it first invited us but which we originally refused. Nostalgia is not an immersion in the past, nostalgia is the first annunciation that the past as we know it is coming to an end.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words