65 Movie Quotes about Nostalgia (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about nostalgia, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 There is something sad and melancholy about trips. I always hate to go away, but one has to find some new place, or it would be impossible to be sad and melancholy again.

Quote from Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

12 Traveling through time has become much too painful.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

13 Six months? Has it been that long? Seems like a single summer's evening.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

14 Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

15 But sneaking out like this, quitting. You'll regret it for the rest of your life.

Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

16 Now, this chance may never come again. As the poet says, how we regret it if we don't get it.

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)

17 The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs no knowledge of sorrow or regret.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

18 You know, when I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life.

Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth in Soylent Green

19 I used to love to look at the ocean... walk by it, just sit and listen to it. Now I don't care if I ever see it again. -That... or anything else.

Michael Sarrazin as Robert Syverton in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

20 Yes. Seems a long time ago, doesn't it? -A long time ago. All the way between childhood and being grown up.

Laurence Olivier as Narrator in The Snow Goose (1954)