Bygone Era Quotes

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

The good old days are now.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The past is another planet.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

We can revere our past, but we cannot re-capture it.

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

The past is a bucket of ashes

The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

Present-day nostalgia involves homesickness for a period of time or a way of life that is gone for good.