Beach Nostalgia Quotes

My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So far that the seaweed wept itself dry on the rocks with nostalgia. ~ Jess Kidd

Cabel felt the familiar nostalgic excitement of the endless possibilities encapsulated in a summers' night at Silver Beach. He smiled at himself as a boy and, more ruefully, at the man who now stood on the worn planks of the boardwalk. This night held no possibilities for him, though it was pleasant to remember a time when it did. ~ Erin Farwell

I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this. ~ M.J. Hyland

I missed all the people and places I didn't know if I would ever see again – my grandparents and their cute little house at Basin Head, where we used to visit the beach everyday and I would run barefoot over the singing sands and swim in the impossibly enormous ocean. ~ Rachael Arsenault

Wild beach is my primordial address. ~ Talismanist Giebra

On the beach, you can live in bliss. ~ Dennis Wilson

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia ~ Pete Hamill

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened. ~ Pete Hamill

There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present. ~ Ray Bradbury

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. ~ Van Morrison

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Nostalgia is not linked only with being away from one's homeland, as one may feel nostalgia , too, inside his own homeland. ~ Mohamed Adly

Nostalgia has hung
its hammock in my heart ~ Víctor Terán

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. ~ William Stafford

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice. ~ Denis Leary

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. ~ Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife. ~ Anurag Shourie

Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion; it entails the act of recalling complicated memories of bygone days. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. ~ Sherman Alexie

Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. ~ Zeena Schreck

No throne in the world can substitute a beach chair. ~ Talismanist Giebra

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be ~ Kristen Ashley

I'm taking my talents to South Beach. ~ LeBron James

Nostalgia was never what it used to be. ~ Brian Spellman

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be? ~ Jasper Fforde

I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn ~ Sarah J. Maas

Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody. ~ Douglas Coupland

Life is a beach. Don't make spelling errors. ~ Talismanist Giebra

Living by the beach means feeling guilty about never going to the beach. ~ Dov Davidoff

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping. ~ Stephanie Roberts

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach. ~ Glenn Danzig

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them. ~ Gilbert Gottfried

Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance may never again return. It is a state of mind best indulged infrequently. ~ Bryant A. Loney

I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive. ~ Jennifer Allison

It is distance that creates nostalgia. ~ Georges Rodenbach

Nostalgia
that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it. ~ Tim O'Brien

Personal essays are often nostalgia-fused narratives written by authors with authenticity fetishes. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? ~ Che Guevara

A million love songs later, we still adore the sound of nostalgia. ~ Eve Barlow

Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past. ~ Sarah Domet

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness ~ Isabel Allende

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press. ~ Terry Eagleton

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me. ~ Francois Pinault

The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

... nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings. ~ Enrique De Heriz

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever. ~ Damien Echols

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now. ~ Todd Haynes

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia. ~ Ralph Nader

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach. ~ Bethany Cosentino

Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory. ~ Steve Maraboli

Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness. ~ Will Advise

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON ~ Douglas Coupland

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. ~ Lenny Bruce

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. ~ Novalis

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain. ~ Russell Smith

From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive. ~ Stephen Rodrick

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love. ~ Dennis Wilson

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days. ~ Alan Gibbons

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. ~ Dan Aykroyd

... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both. ~ Laura McHugh

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. ~ James Wolcott

Advice is a form of Nostalgia ~ Mary Schmich

Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart! ~ Balroop Singh

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons. ~ Ian Schrager

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete. ~ Raheel Farooq

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' ~ Billy Boyd

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ~ Anna Quindlen

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia. ~ George McGovern

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. ~ Edward Hirsch

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. ~ Tina Brown

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true. ~ Roxane Gay

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse. ~ William Gibson

I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach? ~ Bethany Cosentino

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. ~ Robert Morgan

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives. ~ Marisa Miller

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. ~ Christina Baker Kline

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. ~ Mary Schmich

What better way to work out than by the beach with my pup, Gucci? We power walk a bit, take in the beautiful beach air and constantly stop for some water so that all 5 pounds of him doesn't over-heated! ~ Cassie Scerbo

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. ~ Sherman Alexie

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. ~ Cyril Connolly

I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package. ~ Harrison Ford

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime. ~ Susan Orlean

[On Jimmy Carter] Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place. ~ Marshall McLuhan

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! ~ Paddy Chayefsky

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it. ~ Marc Ribot

Nostalgia is missing what might come back. ~ Will Advise

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia. ~ Cullen Bunn

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~ Lou Reed

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside. ~ Mark Ruffalo

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! ~ Bryan Procter

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more ~ Milan Kundera

I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time ~ Michael Chabon

Everything that's happened to you up to this point in your life is all nostalgia of equal intensity. We're the ones who imbue the nostalgia with emotion. ~ Art Hochberg

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. ~ Angela Carter

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. ~ Milton S. Eisenhower

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed. ~ Brene Brown

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko. ~ AnnaLynne McCord